| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
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Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
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Brill's Japanese studies library.
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| Contents |
List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction Thinking with Pictures; The Image and the Origins of Poetry; Experience and Ekphrasis; Painting and Poetic Essence; Optical Allusions: Image and Code; The Paths of Japanese Screen Poetry; Chapter One Screens and Poems, Contexts and Images; Folding Screens in Japan; Screens and Their Contexts; Early Painting-Poems in Chinese; Early Poems on Paintings in Japanese; Chapter Two The Efflorescence of Screen Poetry; Inscription and Perspective; Tsurayuki and Screen Poetry: Layered Perspective and Ekphrasis |
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Mitsune and Screen Poetry: Sense and SensibilityLady Ise and Screen Poetry: Persona and Narrative; Reading, Viewing, Composing; Chapter Three The Dai Is Cast; Topical Convention vs. Lyric Expression; Early Dai: Visual Perception and Direct Experience; Folding Screens and Visual Topics; Screen Painting and Poetic Topic Development; Visual Thinking and Perceptual Cycles; Chapter Four Politics and Precedence; Screen Poetry and Shōshi's Court Entrance of 999; Screen Poetry and Ninshi's Court Entrance of 1190; Conclusion Poetic Conception, Poetic Vision |
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Appendix A Screen Poems Predating Kokinshū (905)Appendix B Translation from Tales of Times Now Past; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how painted screens and other visual art objects contributed to the development of some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Japanese poetry -- Heian period, 792-1185 -- History and criticism
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Literature in art.
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Screen painting, Japanese -- History
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Japanese poetry
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Literature in art
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Screen painting, Japanese
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012014310 |
| ISBN |
9789004231511 |
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900423151X |
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9004219315 |
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9789004219311 |
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1280995750 |
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9781280995750 |
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9786613767363 |
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6613767360 |
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