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1 online resource (280 pages). |
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text file |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Climbing the stairs of poetry : kanshi, print, and writership in nineteenth-century Japan -- Not the kind of poetry men write : "fragrant-style" kanshi and poetic masculinity in Meiji Japan -- Clamorous frogs and verminous insects : Nippon and political haiku, 1890-1900 -- Shiki's plebeian poetry : haiku as "commoner literature," 1890-1900 -- The unmanly poetry of our times : Shiki, Tekkan, and waka reform, 1890-1900 -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
"In Idly Scribbling Rhymers, Robert Tuck argues that Meiji era poetry played a significant role in the formation of ideas of national community, a function within literature usually ascribed solely to newspapers, novels, and literary journals. While the Meiji era saw a proliferation of these latter forms, traditional forms of poetry remained widely read, and important literary figures--including the most famous novelists and public intellectuals--wrote and published poetry. Tuck looks at traditional Japanese poetry not as something separate from the concerns of the new order, but rather as an integral part of both the emerging new forms of media and the emerging national consciousness. Tuck organizes his argument primarily (although not exclusively) around Masaoka Shiki. Shiki is known mostly for his haiku, but he wrote in all three major poetic genres, and worked for most of his career at the newspaper Nippon, one of Japan's most politically engaged and high minded metropolitan dailies. There has been no English language monograph focusing on Shiki"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Masaoka, Shiki, 1867-1902. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Japanese poetry -- Meiji period, 1868-1912 -- History and criticism.
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Politics and literature -- Japan -- History -- 19th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Politics and literature -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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20th century |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Literary criticism.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tuck, Robert, 1979- Idly scribbling rhymers. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231187343 (DLC) 2017053976 |
| ISBN |
9780231547222 (electronic book) |
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0231547226 (electronic book) |
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9780231187343 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0231187343 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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