Linked Verse in Medieval Japan: History, Commentary, Performance - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231191142ISBN-10:231191146UPC:9780231191142Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asian, Poetry, MedievalBook Topic:JapaneseSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 2.60 inchesWeight:3.803Product ID:SCYXHQWR49
Linked Verse in Medieval Japan: History, Commentary, Performance
Linked verse (renga) was the most popular form of poetry in Japan's medieval era (c. 1200-1600 CE). Renga poets linked verses of seventeen and fourteen syllables into long sequences in accordance with complex rules and literary allusions; the first verse, which initially stood alone, was the ancestor of the modern haiku. Courtiers, warriors, and commoners alike practiced linked verse in an...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231191142ISBN-10:231191146UPC:9780231191142Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Asian, Poetry, MedievalBook Topic:JapaneseSize:9.30 x 6.20 x 2.60 inchesWeight:3.803Product ID:SCYXHQWR49
H. Mack Horton is the Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (2002); Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yōshū Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-737 (2012); and The Rhetoric of Death and...
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