Idly Scribbling Rhymers - Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan. Structured around the work of Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry¿s surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Climbing the Stairs of Poetry: Kanshi, Print, and Writership in Nineteenth-Century Japan
2. Not the Kind of Poetry Men Write: “Fragrant-Style” Kanshi and Poetic Masculinity in Meiji Japan
3. Clamorous Frogs and Verminous Insects: Nippon and Political Haiku, 1890–1900
4. Shiki’s Plebeian Poetry: Haiku as “Commoner Literature,” 1890–1900
5. The Unmanly Poetry of Our Times: Shiki, Tekkan, and Waka Reform, 1890–1900
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Robert Tuck is assistant professor of modern Japanese literature and culture at Arizona State University.

Summary

Robert Tuck offers a groundbreaking study of the connections among traditional poetic genres, print media, and visions of national community in late nineteenth-century Japan. Structured around the work of Masaoka Shiki, Idly Scribbling Rhymers reveals poetry’s surprising yet fundamental role in emerging forms of media and national consciousness.

Additional text

Idly Scribbling Rhymers is the first work in English, and one of very few works in Japanese, to attempt to capture the rich social and historical context of poetic composition in the Meiji period. Tuck manages to wrestle an enormous amount of information into a coherent and useful narrative. This book will remain a standard reference work for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Professor Robert Tuck, Robert Tuck, Tuck Robert
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780231187343
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18734-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Studies of the Weatherhead Eas; Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Japan, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history and criticism