New Books in Japanese Studies Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Apr 10, 2023
Author Matthew Mewhinney discusses how Japanese writers experimented with poetic artifice, generating a poetics of irony in literati culture. Topics include the expansion of literati culture in Japanese poetry and painting, the use of irony to express emotions in Japanese literature, the inclusion of the Emma cycle in early modern Japanese poetry, and the modernization of traditional genres by poets like Shiki and Soseki.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
Exploring Japanese Poetry and Literature
02:39 • 5min
Expansion of Literati Culture in Japanese Poetry and Painting
08:05 • 20min
Understanding Form and Expressing Feelings through Irony in Japanese Literature
27:42 • 3min
Irony in Early Modern Japanese Poetry and the Inclusion of Emma Cycle
30:26 • 3min
Exploring the Poetry of a Japanese Poet and Painter
33:16 • 6min
Modernizing Japanese Poetry
39:16 • 14min
The Decline and Nostalgia of Literary Culture in Japan
53:24 • 2min