Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture(English, Hardcover, Mewhinney Matthew)

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Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture(English, Hardcover, Mewhinney Matthew) is written by Mewhinney Matthew and published by Springer International Publishing AG. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3031119215 (ISBN 10) and 9783031119217 (ISBN 13).

This book explores how two early modern and two modern Japanese writers - Yosa Buson (1716-83), Ema Saiko (1787-1861), Masaoka Shiki (1867-1902), and Natsume Soseki (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.