Matsuo Bash?'s Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections

By: Eleanor Kerkham

Book Overview

This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikai master's literary and philosophical contributions. Haikai is an art that parodies and often subverts its linguistic, generic, and personal predecessors, and its intersections include imaginative links to the rest of Japanese literature and culture, to Chinese prose and poetry, and to the social, intellectual, and everyday realities of seventeenth century Tokugawa life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403972583
• ISBN13: 9781403972583
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 8.3"