Traces of Dreams

Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho

By:

Haruo Shirane

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Paperback / softback

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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 reassessment of haikai popular linked verse that eventually gave birth to modern haiku particularly that of Basho and his disciples.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

January 1st, 1998

Author

Haruo Shirane

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

400

Dimensions

153x229x21

ISBN-13

9780804730990

Product ID

6109185

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