Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry - A Study in the Polyphony of Yosa Buson's Linked Poems

In Reading Japanese Haikai Poetry Herbert Jonsson makes an analysis of a number of poems composed by the eighteenth-century master Yosa Buson. The study offers the reader a wealth of explanations, displaying the varied perspectives available.

About the author

Herbert Jonsson, Ph.D. (2006), Stockholm University, is Senior Lecturer in Japanese at Dalarna University in Sweden. His field of research is Japanese haiku and classical haikai, especially from the point of view of poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Herbert H Jonsson, Herbert H. Jonsson
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2016
• EAN: 9789004311183
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31118-3
• No. of pages: 270
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Libra
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies