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Bezig met laden... Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthologydoor Steven Carter
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. From the ancient "songs" of the manyoushuu, to 20c modern poems, it is all there except for the obscene senryu (which no one has translated to date!). Carter does not explain how he selects what he selects but i think he does a good job of picking up on those that push the envelope on new trope or provide the best example of a certain metaphor. His introductions for the poets of each period are fine, but some poems could use a bit more explanation imho (but he, doubtless thinks my books explain too much). The translations are good, sometimes brilliant and sometimes hurt by trying too hard to get five or seven syllables rather than paying attention to beat, alone. That is a problem endemic to the McCullough school. If you were to buy one book on Japanese poetry, this would be it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of traditional Japanese poetry now available in English.Ezra Pound called poetry "the most concentrated form of verbal expression," and the great poets of Japan wrote poems as charged and compressed as poems can be. The Japanese language, with its few consonates and even fewer vowels, did not lend itself to expansive forms, making small seem better and perhaps more powerful. There is also the historical context in which Japanese poetry developed--the highly refined society of the early courts of Nara and Kyoto. In this setting, poetry came to be used as much for communication between lovers and friends as for artistic expression, and a tradition of cryptic statement evolved, with notes passed from sleeve to sleeve or conundrums exchanged furtively in the night.Add to this the high sense of decorum that dominated court society for centuries, and you have the conditions that led to the development of the classical uta (also referred to as tanka or waka), the thrity-one-syllable form that acts as the foundation for virtually all poetry written in Japanese between 850 and 1900.In choosing poems, the compiler has given priority to authors and works gnerally acknowledged as of great artistic and/or historical importance by Japanese scholars. For this reason, major poets such as Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Izumi Shikibu, Saigyo, and Matsuo Basho are particualarly important collections such as Man'yoshu, Kokinshu, and Shin kokinshu. In addtion, the volume also contains samplings from genres such as the poetic diary, linked verse, Chinese forms, and comic verse. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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