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Light Verse from the Floating World
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Description for Light Verse from the Floating World
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical - and often humorous - poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention. This title explores the elements of humor and satire contained in senryu, highlighting the mores that lie behind the laughter the poems evince. Translator(s): Ueda, Makoto. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DCQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical-and often humorous-poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study. Senryu are interesting, however, precisely because they reflect the thoughts and feelings of ordinary townspeople in a way that other more orthodox types of Japanese literature do not. In his introduction on the nature and historical background of the form, Makoto Ueda explores the elements of humor and satire contained in senryu, highlighting the mores that lie behind the laughter the ... Read more
Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical-and often humorous-poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study. Senryu are interesting, however, precisely because they reflect the thoughts and feelings of ordinary townspeople in a way that other more orthodox types of Japanese literature do not. In his introduction on the nature and historical background of the form, Makoto Ueda explores the elements of humor and satire contained in senryu, highlighting the mores that lie behind the laughter the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231115506
SKU
V9780231115506
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About
Makoto Ueda is Professor Emeritus of Japanese at Stanford University. He has written, translated, and edited fourteen books, including Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology, which won a Japan-U.S. Friendship Commision Literary Translation Award.
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