| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Brill's Japanese Studies Library
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Brill's Japanese studies library.
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| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction Thinking with Pictures; The Image and the Origins of Poetry; Experience and Ekphrasis; Painting and Poetic Essence; Optical Allusions: Image and Code; The Paths of Japanese Screen Poetry; Chapter One Screens and Poems, Contexts and Images; Folding Screens in Japan; Screens and Their Contexts; Early Painting-Poems in Chinese; Early Poems on Paintings in Japanese; Chapter Two The Efflorescence of Screen Poetry; Inscription and Perspective; Tsurayuki and Screen Poetry: Layered Perspective and Ekphrasis. |
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Mitsune and Screen Poetry: Sense and SensibilityLady Ise and Screen Poetry: Persona and Narrative; Reading, Viewing, Composing; Chapter Three The Dai Is Cast; Topical Convention vs. Lyric Expression; Early Dai: Visual Perception and Direct Experience; Folding Screens and Visual Topics; Screen Painting and Poetic Topic Development; Visual Thinking and Perceptual Cycles; Chapter Four Politics and Precedence; Screen Poetry and Shōshi's Court Entrance of 999; Screen Poetry and Ninshi's Court Entrance of 1190; Conclusion Poetic Conception, Poetic Vision. |
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Appendix A Screen Poems Predating Kokinshū (905)Appendix B Translation from Tales of Times Now Past; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how painted screens and other visual art objects contributed to the development of some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Japanese poetry -- Heian period, 792-1185 -- History and criticism.
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Literature in art.
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Literature in art. |
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Screen painting, Japanese -- History.
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Screen painting, Japanese. |
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History. |
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792-1185 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sorensen, Joseph T. Optical Allusions : Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200). Leiden : BRILL, ©2012 9789004219311 |
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9789004231511 (electronic book) |
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900423151X (electronic book) |
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9004219315 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9789004219311 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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900423151X |
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9789004219311 (hardback acid-free paper) |
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