Idly Scribbling Rhymers (eBook)

Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Robert Tuck (Autor)

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2018
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-54722-2 (ISBN)

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Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan. Structured around the work of Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry's surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.

TuckRobert: Robert Tuck is assistant professor of Japanese at the University of Montana. He has published in Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Sino-Japanese Studies, and Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. This would be his first book.Robert Tuck is assistant professor of modern Japanese literature and culture at Arizona State University.

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How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese intellectuals took a striking-but often overlooked-interest in poetry's ties to national character. In Idly Scribbling Rhymers, Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan that reveals the fissures within the process of imagining the nation.Structured around the work of the poet and critic Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers considers how poetic genres were read, written, and discussed within the emergent worlds of the newspaper and literary periodical in Meiji Japan. Tuck details attempts to cast each of the three traditional poetic genres of haiku, kanshi, and waka as Japan's national poetry. He analyzes the nature and boundaries of the concepts of national poetic community that were meant to accompany literary production, showing that Japan's visions of community were defined by processes of hierarchy and exclusion and deeply divided along lines of social class, gender, and political affiliation. A comprehensive study of nineteenth-century Japanese poetics and print culture, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry's surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Climbing the Stairs of Poetry: Kanshi, Print, and Writership in Nineteenth-Century Japan2. Not the Kind of Poetry Men Write: “Fragrant-Style” Kanshi and Poetic Masculinity in Meiji Japan3. Clamorous Frogs and Verminous Insects: Nippon and Political Haiku, 1890–19004. Shiki’s Plebeian Poetry: Haiku as “Commoner Literature,” 1890–19005. The Unmanly Poetry of Our Times: Shiki, Tekkan, and Waka Reform, 1890–1900ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Reihe/Serie: Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 0-231-54722-6 / 0231547226
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54722-2 / 9780231547222