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10%OFFHaruo Shirane - Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho - 9780804730990 - V9780804730990
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Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho

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Description for Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho Paperback. This book examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai. Num Pages: 400 pages, 11 half-tones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JD; DSBB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.

Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground for critical discussion and reading of a central figure in Japanese culture, placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change.

Intended for both the general reader and the specialist, Traces of Dreams examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental ... Read more

The author analyzes haikai not only as a specific poetic genre but as a mode of discourse that emerged from the profound engagement between the new commoner culture that came to the fore in the seventeenth century cities and the earlier traditions, which haikai parodied, transformed, and translated into the vernacular.

Traces of Dreams explores the manner in which haikai both appropriated and recast the established cultural and poetic associations embodied in nature, historical objects, and famous places—the landscape that preserved the cultural memory and that became the source of authority as well as the contested ground for haikai re-visioning and re-mapping.

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Product Details

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804730990
SKU
V9780804730990
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Ref
99-50

About Haruo Shirane
Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture at Columbia University, and the author of The Bridge of Dreams: Poetics of the Tale of Genji (Stanford, 1987).

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