Matthew Mewhinney
Author of 'Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture'
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Apr 10, 2023 • 58min
Matthew Mewhinney, "Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
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.
