Author: K?tar? TakamuraPublisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Chieko and Other Poems of Takamura Kōtarō
Author: K?tar? TakamuraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Chieko and Other Poems
Author: Kōtarō TakamuraChieko and Other Poems of Takamura Kōtarō
Author: K?tar? TakamuraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Chieko Poems
Author: Kōtarō TakamuraPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The major influence and subject of Takamura's work was Naganuma Cheiko, an early member of the feminist movement Seitosha. They were married in 1914 and modelled their relationship on sexual equality. In 1931, Cheiko began to show signs of schizophrenia and, in 1932, she attempted suicide. She was institutionalised in 1935 and died there of tuberculosis in 1938. The poems in this volume are touching portraits of his wife and their life together from the time of their courtship until some years after her death.
Chieko-sho
Author: Kōtarō TakamuraJapan's Love-Hate Relationship with the West
Author: Sukehiro HirakawaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004213821
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
Introductory chapters cover Japan’s historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan’s turn to the West; Japan’s return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.
The Fifth Day . . . and Other Bitesize Prose Poems
Author: Chieko PersimmonsPublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456808346
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
Chieko Persimmons successfully utilises flexible genre of the prose poem, making out of ordinary experiences a rich and evocative meditation, with consistent warmth and humour. This is a piquant, inventive collection (Roger Cardinal, art critic, emeritus professor, University of Kent). These pieces reach for intangible (Patricia Debney, poet, Canterbury laureate, 200708). One is reminded all at once of Zen Koans, Piet Hein, John Clare, and even Beckett (Todd McEwen, author of four novels, a former editor of Granta magazine).
The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo
Author: Hosea HirataPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400863481
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
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 Valéry. 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 author maintains that in Japan the language of modernism was that of translation. When Nishiwaki finally began to write poems in Japanese, a new poetic language was born in his country: a translatory language. Hirata elaborates this birth of new poetry via translation by referring to the theories of translation and of différance articulated by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. The author reconsiders the view that translated texts are secondary to the originals, where the truth supposedly resides; instead he presents translation as an essential textual movement, écriture, toward the paradise of pure language and Poetry. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
A Brief History of Imbecility
Author: Takamura KotaroPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824814564
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Takamura Kotaro (1883-1956) drew on his studies in New York, London, and Paris to lay the foundations in Japan for Western-style Japanese sculpture through his intricate wood carvings and powerful bronzes. But Takamura also composed poems infused with startling energy, directness, and narrative clarity. Among the first to use the vernacular masterfully in verse, he has long been recognized as one of Japan's premier modern poets. Takamura thus stood in the confluence of two artistic currents, both shaping and being shaped by them. His personal experiences, from exultation to tragedy, found expression through this dynamic. Hiroaki Sato now captures a lucid picture of Takamura's eloquent struggle with art and with life. Originally published in 1980 as Chieko and Other Poems, this expanded volume includes a new introduction and a new selection of Takamura's essays on art and other subjects. The poetry included here is divided into three parts: "The Journey" represents a chronology of the poet's life; "Chieko" is a selection of poems about Takamura's wife which describes his devotion to her for more than thirty years through courtship and marriage, during her illness and insanity, and continuing after her death; and "A Brief History of Imbecility" is a sequence of twenty autobiographical poems composed in 1947. The essays, appearing in English for the first time, offer a more complete understanding of Takamura's relationship to art, his complex experience of Paris, and his views on beauty and creativity. Included here are "The Latter Half of Chieko's Life," a moving prose complement to the Chieko poems, and "A Last Glance at the Third Ministry of Education Art Exhibition," a scathing review of the modern art world, the first of its kind in Japan.
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