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Haiku before haiku : from the Renga masters to Bashō /
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for three hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syl...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for three hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its own constellation of image and meaning, hokku opens a a series of linked, collaborative stanzas in a sequence called renga. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 163 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780231527064 0231527063 |