Matsuo Bashō’s Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections
Eleanor Kerkham
279 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1403972583
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Language: English
Publish: June 6, 2007
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. This collection of essays explores certain neglected aspects of this haikaimaster’s literary and philosophical contributions.