<i>How to Read a Japanese Poem</i>offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancie
How to Read a Japanese Poem
โ Scribed by Steven D. Carter
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 345
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of composition and literary interpretation used by Japanese poets, scholars, and critics from ancient times to the present.
โฆ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Ancient Song And Poetry
Chapter 2. Long Poems And Short Poems
Chapter 3. Popular Songs
Chapter 4. Linked Verse
Chapter 5. Unorthodox Poems
Chapter 6. Comic Poems
Chapter 7. Poems In Chinese
Appendix 1. Technical Terms
Appendix 2. Aesthetic Ideals And Devices
Notes
Sources Of Japanese Texts
Selected Bibliography
Index Of Japanese Names, Titles, And Terms
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