Form And Feeling In Japanese Literati Culture

Author : Matthew Mewhinney
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3031119231

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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. 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 LinguisticLiterary Studies, The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture, and Japanese Language and Literature.

Author : Matthew Mewhinney
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031119224

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Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture by Matthew Mewhinney Pdf

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.

Author : Irina Holca,Carmen Sapunaru Tamas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793623881

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Forms of the Body in Contemporary Japanese Society, Literature, and Culture by Irina Holca,Carmen Sapunaru Tamas Pdf

This collection brings together fifteen chapters written by scholars specializing in disciplines ranging from anthropology and sociology to literature, film, and performance studies. These scholars analyze complex questions about how the body is lived and imagined as a locus of meaning-making in contemporary Japan. Exploring such topics as mind-body dualism, aging and illness, spirit possession, beauty, performance, and gender, this collection addresses the wide array of socio-cultural and literary contexts in which the body is interpreted in Japanese culture and thought.

Author : Rosina Buckland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004249417

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Painting Nature for the Nation by Rosina Buckland Pdf

In Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan, Rosina Buckland offers an account of the career of the painter Taki Katei (1830–1901). Drawing on a large body of previously unpublished paintings, collaborative works and book illustrations by this highly successful, yet neglected, figure, Buckland traces how Katei transformed his art and practice based in modes derived from China in order to fulfil the needs of the modern nation-state at large-scale exhibitions and at the imperial court.

Author : Nancy R. Rosenberger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521466377

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Japanese Sense of Self by Nancy R. Rosenberger Pdf

The essays in this collection look at how the Japanese see themselves and others, in a variety of contexts, and challenge many Western assumptions about Japanese society. Through their own experiences and observations of Japanese life, the authors explain how the Japanese define themselves and how they communicate with those around them. They discuss what Westerners view as oppositions inherent within the Japanese community and demonstrate how the Japanese reconcile one with the other.

Author : Nyozekan Hasegawa
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013949097

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The Japanese Character by Nyozekan Hasegawa Pdf

Written during a period (1935-38) when, according to the author, there was much talk of the Japanese spirit and of the superiority of things Japanese, the essays collected here explore the essential nature of the Japanese character. The author notes that the virtues of the Japanese national charact

Author : Albert M. Craig
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400867929

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Japan by Albert M. Craig Pdf

Among the leading specialists on Japan, the authors—both Japanese and Western—represent a range of disciplines from economics, history, and political science, to sociology, anthropology, psychiatry, and literary criticism. Some of the essays draw comparisons with China or Korea, some with England, Europe, or America, and some with countries of the Third World. By showing us how the Japanese experience relates to that of other contexts, the authors provide us with important insights into Japan as well as into other societies undergoing a modern transformation. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Atsuko Sakaki
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824829186

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Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki Pdf

Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised—or in many cases devised—rhetoric to convey "Chineseness" and how this practice contributed to shaping a national Japanese identity. The volume begins by examining how Japanese travelers in China, and Chinese travelers in Japan, are portrayed in early literary works. An increasing awareness of the diversity of Chinese culture forms a premise for the next chapter, which looks at Japan’s objectification of the Chinese and their works of art from the eighteenth century onward. Chapter 3 examines gender as a factor in the formation and transformation of the Sino-Japanese dyad. Sakaki then continues with an investigation of early modern and modern Japanese representations of intellectuals who were marginalized for their insistence on the value of the classical Chinese canon and literary Chinese. The work concludes with an overview of writing in Chinese by early Meiji writers and the presence of Chinese in the work of modern writer Nakamura Shin’ichiro. A final summary of the book’s major themes makes use of several stories by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Calligraphers
ISBN : UOM:39015016855192

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Words in Motion by Anonim Pdf

Author : James R. Brandon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076000647946

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Tokyo, Form and Spirit by James R. Brandon Pdf

Author : Michael K. Bourdaghs
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478021926

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A Fictional Commons by Michael K. Bourdaghs Pdf

Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and the struggle to obtain or preserve material wealth while also imagining alternative ways of owning and sharing. For Sōseki, literature was a means for thinking through—and beyond—private property. Bourdaghs puts Sōseki into dialogue with thinkers from his own era (including William James and Mizuno Rentarō, author of Japan’s first copyright law) and discusses how his work anticipates such theorists as Karatani Kōjin and Franco Moretti. As Bourdaghs shows, Sōseki both appropriated and rejected concepts of ownership and subjectivity in ways that theorized literature as a critical response to the emergence of global capitalism.

Author : Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315507958

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Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History by Jon Thares Davidann,Marc Jason Gilbert Pdf

Cross-Cultural Encounters in Modern World History explores cultural contact as an agent of change. It takes an encounters approach to world history since 1500, rather than a political one, to reveal different perspectives and experiences as well as key patterns and transformations. It studies the spaces between cultures historically to help us transcend human differences today in a rapidly globalizing world. The text focuses on first encounters that suggest long-term developments and particularly significant encounters that have changed the direction of world history. Because of the complexities of these encounters, the author takes a user-friendly approach to keep the text accessible to students with varying backgrounds in history.

Author : Jan van der Putten,Edwin P. Wieringa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527502772

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Traditions Redirecting Contemporary Indonesian Cultural Productions by Jan van der Putten,Edwin P. Wieringa Pdf

This volume is the result of a conference held in October 2015 in connection with the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing developments that are considered important in contemporary Indonesian cultural productions. The first part of the book reflects on the traumatic experiences of the Indonesian nation caused by a failed coup on October 1, 1965. In more general theoretical terms, this topic connects to the field of memory studies, which, in recent decades, has made an academic comeback. The focus of the chapters in this section is how certain, often distressing, events are represented in narratives in a variety of media that are periodically renewed, changed, rehearsed, repeated, and performed, in order to become or stay part of the collective memory of a certain group of people. The second part of the book explores how forces of globalisation have impacted upon the local and, linguistically surprisingly, rather homogeneous cultural productions of Indonesia. The main strands of inquiry in this second section are topics of global trends in religion, responses to urban development, the impact of popular literary developments, and how traditions are revisited in order to come to terms with international cultural developments.

Author : Daniel Poch
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231550468

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Licentious Fictions by Daniel Poch Pdf

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior and a dangerous force transgressing social norms, ninjō became a focal point for debates about the role of the novel and a key motor propelling narrative plots. In Licentious Fictions, Daniel Poch investigates the significance of ninjō in defining the literary modernity of nineteenth-century Japan. He explores how cultural anxieties about the power of literature in mediating emotions and desire shaped Japanese narrative from the late Edo through the Meiji period. Poch argues that the Meiji novel, instead of superseding earlier discourses and narrative practices surrounding ninjō, complicated them by integrating them into new cultural and literary concepts. He offers close readings of a broad array of late Edo- and Meiji-period narrative and critical sources, examining how they shed light on the great intensification of the concern surrounding ninjō. In addition to proposing a new theoretical outlook on emotion, Licentious Fictions challenges the divide between early modern and modern Japanese literary studies by conceptualizing the nineteenth century as a continuous literary-historical space.

Author : James Shea,Grant Caldwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000886573

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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader by James Shea,Grant Caldwell Pdf

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a historical overview and comprehensive examination of haiku across the world in numerous languages, poetic movements, and cultural contexts. Offering an extensive critical perspective, this volume provides leading essays by poets and scholars who explore haiku’s various global developments, demonstrating the form’s complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The sixteen chapters are carefully organized into categories that reflect the salient areas of practice and study: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An insightful introduction surveys haiku’s influence beyond Japan and frames the collection historically and culturally, questioning commonly held assumptions about haiku and laying the groundwork for new ways of seeing the form. Haiku’s elusiveness, its resistance to definition, is partly what keeps it so relevant today, and this book traces the many ways in which this global verse form has evolved. The Routledge Global Haiku Reader ushers haiku into the twenty-first century in a critically minded and historically informed manner for a new generation of readers and writers and will appeal to students and researchers in Asian studies, literary studies, comparative literature, creative writing, and cultural studies