Modernism in Practice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry 9780824844561

Postwar modernist verse has been rarely discussed in English-language works on Japanese literature, despite the fact tha

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Development of Modern Japanese Poetry
Chapter 1. The Birth of the Modern Yosano Akiko and Tekkan’s Verse Revolution
Chapter 2. The Expression of Despair Arishima Takeo’s Modernist Poetry
Part II. Five Approaches to Postwar Japanese Poetry
Chapter 3. Uttering the Unutterable Soh Sakon’s Hell Scroll
Chapter 4. Language as Feminist Discourse Contemporary Women’s Poetry
Chapter 5. Identity in Contemporary Okinawan Poetry Ichihara Chikako’s Island-Mother
Chapter 6. Language as Postmodern Expression The Poetry of Asabuki Ryòji
Chapter 7. The Limits of Language The Poetry of Tanikawa Shuntarò
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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