Modernism in Practice : An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry / Leith Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, Leith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Japanese poetry.

Modernism (Literature)--Japan.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illus.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2004]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Postwar modernist verse has been rarely discussed in English-language works on Japanese literature, despite the fact that it has been the dominant mode of poetic expression in Japan since World War II. Now readers of modern Japanese poetry in translation have gained an impressive intellectual and linguistic companion in their enjoyment of modern Japanese verse. Modernism in Practice combines close readings of individual Japanese postwar poets and poetry with historical and critical analysis. Five of the seven chapters concentrate on the life and work of such outstanding poets as Soh Sakon, Ishigaki Rin, Ito Hiromi, Asabuki Ryoji, and Tanikawa Shuntaro. Several of these writers have only come into prominence in recent decades, so this work also serves to acquaint readers with contemporary Japanese verse. A significant dimension of this volume is the detailed and extensive treatment afforded two important areas of postwar Japanese verse: the poetry of women and of Okinawa. Modernism in Practice is noteworthy not only as an introduction to postwar Japanese poets and their times, but also for the numerous poems that appear in translation throughout the volume-many for the first time in book form.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I. The Development of Modern Japanese Poetry

Chapter 1. The Birth of the Modern Yosano Akiko and Tekkan's Verse Revolution

Chapter 2. The Expression of Despair Arishima Takeo's Modernist Poetry

Part II. Five Approaches to Postwar Japanese Poetry

Chapter 3. Uttering the Unutterable Soh Sakon's Hell Scroll

Chapter 4. Language as Feminist Discourse Contemporary Women's Poetry

Chapter 5. Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Poetry Ichihara Chikako's Island-Mother

Chapter 6. Language as Postmodern Expression The Poetry of Asabuki Ryòji

Chapter 7. The Limits of Language The Poetry of Tanikawa Shuntarò

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824844561

0824844564

OCLC:

1013940939