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The Pursuit of Harmony - Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,267
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The Pursuit of Harmony - Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Hardcover): Gustav Heldt

The Pursuit of Harmony - Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan (Hardcover)

Gustav Heldt

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The Heian court of the late ninth and early tenth centuries represents one of the most innovative and influential periods in the history of Japanese poetry. It witnessed the creation of entirely new forms of verse in poetry matches, screen poems, and officially sponsored anthologies, none of which had a precedent in earlier times. At the apex of these phenomena lay compilation of the Kokin wakashu (Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern), whose status as the first imperial anthology of native poetry would make it integral to Japanese court culture for centuries afterward. Despite the enormous historical significance of these new forms of poetry and the marked interest displayed by powerful individuals in patronizing them, however, little sustained attention has been paid to the ties between the practices of producing and performing verse and processes of economic, ideological, political, and social change in this period. This book is intended to address such issues through an investigation of the ways in which different members of the court community deployed poems in the pursuit of power.

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Imprint: Cornell University East Asia Program
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 2010
Authors: Gustav Heldt
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 978-1-933947-09-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 1-933947-09-8
Barcode: 9781933947099

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