Overview
Looks at the work of four writers who participated in Japanese literati culture
Offers new ways to think about the relationship between poetic form, irony, and self-expression
Highlights the critical transition in Japanese literary history from early modern to modern
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers – Yosa Buson (1716–83), Ema Saikō (1787–1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902), and Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) – experimented with the poetic artifice afforded by the East Asian literati (bunjin) tradition, a repertoire of Chinese and Japanese poetry and painting. Their experiments generated a poetics of irony that transformed the lineaments of lyric expression in literati culture and advanced the emergence of modern prose poetry in Japanese literature. Through rigorous close readings, this study changes our understanding of the relationship between lyric form and the representation of self, sense, and feeling in Japanese poetic writing from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. The book aims to reach a broad audience, including specialists in East Asian Studies, Anglophone literary studies, and Comparative Literature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew Mewhinney is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University, USA, where he teaches Japanese language, literature, and culture. His research interests include lyric poetry and theory, literati culture, narrative, subjectivity, and translation. His scholarship has appeared in Poetica: An International Journal of Linguistic-Literary Studies, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, and Japanese Language and Literature.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture
Authors: Matthew Mewhinney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11922-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11921-7Published: 18 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11924-8Published: 18 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11922-4Published: 17 November 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 252
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, History of Japan, Literary History, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature