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2022
Overview
This chapter explores the period during which Japanese poets engaged in formal experimentation to a degree unmatched in any other period of comparable length in Japanese history. It takes a look at the close connection between form and translation in the history of modern Japanese poetry. By attending to how literary forms change when writers borrow them from one language and recreate them in another, the chapter unfolds something fundamental about how the implied and explicit values of different literary cultures interact. The chapter then shifts to pose the following fundamental questions about diffusionism: Under what circumstances, if any, can a so-called peripheral culture resist adopting the forms created by a core culture? Is it possible to specify when such resistance would be effective, and when ineffectual? It then considers the phenomenon of modern free-verse poetry in Japanese and how traditional poets and shintaishi poets both attempted to defend their forms against criticisms.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
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ISBN
9781501761171, 150176117X
