Traces of Dreams

Haruo Shirane

Published by Stanford University Press 1998

Traces of Dreams

Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho

Haruo Shirane

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503616905

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Basho (1644-94) is perhaps the best known Japanese poet in both Japan and the West, and yet there has been remarkably little serious scholarship in English on his achievement. This book is intended to address that virtual void by establishing the ground for critical discussion and reading of a central figure in Japanese culture, placing the works of Basho and his disciples in the context of broader social change. Intended for both the general reader and the specialist, Traces of Dreams examines the issues of language, landscape, cultural memory, and social practice in early modern Japan through a fundamental reassessment of haikai—popular linked verse that eventually gave birth to modern haiku—particularly that of Basho and his disciples. The author analyzes haikai not only as a specific poetic genre but as a mode of discourse that emerged from the profound engagement between the new commoner culture that came to the fore in the seventeenth century cities and the earlier traditions, which haikai parodied, transformed, and translated into the vernacular. Traces of Dreams explores the manner in which haikai both appropriated and recast the established cultural and poetic associations embodied in nature, historical objects, and famous places—the landscape that preserved the cultural memory and that became the source of authority as well as the contested ground for haikai re-visioning and re-mapping.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
References and General Notes Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1. Introduction: Refiguring Cultural Memory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Basho Myth East and West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
3. Haikai Language, Haikai Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
4. The Art of Juxtaposition: Cutting and Joining Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
5. Linking and Communal Poetry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
6. The Poet as Guest Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
7. Seasonal Associations and Cultural Landscape Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
8. Remapping the Past: Narrow Road to the Interior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
9. A wakening to the High, Returning to the Low: Basho's Poetics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Epilogue: Parting of the Ways Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Appendix: Glossary of Literary Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Index of Cited Hokku by Basho, with Approximate Dates of the Earliest Variant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 400
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus, 1 map

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Published: January 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781503616905