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Modernism in practice : an introduction to postwar Japanese poetry /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morton, Leith
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2004.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The development of modern Japanese poetry. The birth of the modern: Yosano Akiko and Tekkan's verse revolution
  • The expression of despair: Arishima Takeo's modernist poetry
  • Five approaches to postwar Japanese poetry. Uttering the unutterable: Soh Sakon's Hell scroll
  • Language as feminist discourse: contemporary women's poetry
  • Identity in contemporary Okinawan poetry: Ichihara Chikako's Island-mother
  • Language as postmodern expression: the poetry of Asabuki Ryōji
  • The limits of language: the poetry of Tanikawa Shuntarō.