Modernism in Practice : : An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry /

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

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 li...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Morton, Leith,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; illus.
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Table of 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

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