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Leith Morton, Douglas Slaymaker, William Tsutsui - Antithetical History of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Inbunden

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Antithetical History of Contemporary Japanese Poetry

Twenty-First-Century Poets and Politics

Av Leith Morton, Douglas Slaymaker, William Tsutsui

Del i serien New Studies in Modern Japan

1382 kr

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Providing both literary-historical context and in-depth poetry analysis, this book traces major changes in twenty-first century Japanese poetry.The book examines three major contemporary poets: Tanikawa Shuntaro, Yotsumoto Yasuhiro, and Koike Masayo, as well as women’s voices in contemporary poetry and poetry composed on the theme of politics. Leith Morton examines how these domains were influenced by technology and catastrophe; some poets retreated into the subjectivity of the self, while other poets boldly struck out to confront Japanese society.In part one, the book begins with a historical analysis of representative Japanese women poets followed by a chapter investigating the work of a few famous contemporary poets who have taken up political themes, including agitprop verse published online.In part two, Morton examines Tanikawa, Yotsumoto, and Koike’s works. He traces the figurative and antithetical interrelations between these three major poets and the complex interplay of influence between their works.
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Leith Morton is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan and Academic Affiliate in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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In this book, Morton’s masterful translations and close readings of an astonishing variety of works—many of which appear here in English for the first time—become a way for him to rewrite the recent history of Japanese poetry. The reader is given an excellent sense of the arc of poetic innovation in the last three decades in Japan and all of its complexity, vibrancy, and cross-mediality. Most importantly, the author centers the strong interpersonal foundations of the Japanese poetry world: the networks of connection, influence, and 'misreadings,' that are so often the core engine of poetic experimentation, and yet are something so few studies have done justice to, like Morton has done here.

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