Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry: A Study in the Polyphony of Yosa Buson's Linked Poems

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31118-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

In Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry Herbert Jonsson makes an inquiry into the multitude ways in which Japanese linked haikai poetry has been read and understood. A number of poems composed by the eighteenth-century master Yosa Buson are analyzed in great detail. Although closely related to the popular haiku, haikai is often regarded as difficult for non-specialists, but this study offers the reader a wealth of explanations, displaying the varied perspectives available.
The first part of the book consists of a thorough investigation of how these poems have been interpreted in the Japanese commentary tradition. The second concluding part offers an innovative study of the poetics of scent (nioizuke), essential for understanding the creative force of this poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jonsson, Herbert H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert Jonsson, Ph.D. (2006), Stockholm University, is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at Dalarna University in Sweden. His field of research is Japanese haiku and classical haikai, especially from the point of view of poetics.