Expanding verse : Japanese poetry at the edge of media / Andrew Campana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campana, Andrew, 1989- author.

Series:

New interventions in Japanese studies ; 6.

New interventions in Japanese studies ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese poetry--20th century.

Japanese poetry.

Japanese poetry--21st century.

Mass media and literature--Japan--20th century.

Mass media and literature.

Mass media and literature--Japan--21st century.

Literature and technology--Japan--20th century.

Literature and technology.

Literature and technology--Japan--21st century.

Mass media and technology--Japan--20th century.

Mass media and technology.

Mass media and technology--Japan--21st century.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan-many of which have never been examined in detail before: the cinepoem, the tape-recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music-video poem, the online sign-language poem, and the augmented-reality poem. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, he contends that poetry actively aimed to disrupt the norms of media in each era. For the poets in Expanding Verse, poetry was not a medium in and of itself but a way to push back against what new media technologies crystallized and perpetuated. Their aim was to challenge dominant conceptions of embodiment and sensation, as well as who counts as a poet and what counts as poetry. Over and over, poetic practice became a way to think about each medium otherwise, and to find new possibilities at the edge of media"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Against the screen : poets rewriting cinema in 1920s and 1930s Japan

the voice recomposed : a lost tape-recorder poem of postwar Japan

You forbid me to walk : Yokota Hiroshi's disability poetics

As a piece of flesh : feminist poetic stardom and the body

world webs : augmented-reality poetry and Japanese sign language poetry online

Coda.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Campana, Andrew, 1989- Expanding verse

ISBN:

9780520399211

0520399218

OCLC:

1429575035