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The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation
Hosea Hirata
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 line illus. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 399.
This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valery. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and French, shaped a highly influential poetic modernism in Japan while elevating the artistic status of translation. This volume includes Nishiwaki's highly original essays on the nature of poetry, his first two collections of Japanese poems, and a poem meditating on the annihilation of symbolism. The ... Read more
This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valery. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and French, shaped a highly influential poetic modernism in Japan while elevating the artistic status of translation. This volume includes Nishiwaki's highly original essays on the nature of poetry, his first two collections of Japanese poems, and a poem meditating on the annihilation of symbolism. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691604855
SKU
V9780691604855
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Reviews for The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation
Finalist for the 1994 Koizumi Yakurro Prize "In addition to being a well-balanced study of one of twentieth-century Japan's most important poets, Hirata also pioneers possibilities in areas of criticism heretofore often neglected in studies of Japanese literature."
The Journal of Asian Studies
The Journal of Asian Studies