How to Read a Japanese Poem

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Ancient Song and Poetry
2. Long Poems and Short Poems
3. Popular Songs
4. Linked Verse
5. Unorthodox Poems
6. Comic Poems
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

About the author

Steven D. Carter is Yamato Ichihashi Chair in Japanese History and Civilization, emeritus, at Stanford University. His Columbia University Press books include Haiku Before Haiku: From the Renga Masters to Bashō (2011) and The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century (2014).

Summary

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.

Additional text

This book is a masterful tour of Japanese poetry from the earliest times to the late nineteenth century. The range of knowledge is astonishing, and there are very few people—perhaps no one—who could attempt this kind of book except for the author.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Carter, Steven (Stanford University) Carter, Steven D. Carter, Carter Steven D.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9780231186834
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18683-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Japan, Poetry, POETRY / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets