Shea, James

The Routledge Global Haiku Reader

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ISBN 13:: 9781032272658
author:: Shea, James
format:: Paperback
publisher:: Taylor & Francis Ltd
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2023
Pages:: 344
Dimensions:: 23.4 x 15.6 x 2 centimetres (0.6
Genre:: Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Poetry,
Condition:: New
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The Routledge Global Haiku Reader provides a comprehensive overview of haiku across the world in numerous languages and poetic movements. This volume offers leading essays by poets and scholars exploring haiku's global developments, revealing its complex and sometimes contradictory manifestations from the twentieth century to the present. The book is organized into four categories: Haiku in Transit, Haiku and Social Consciousness, Haiku and Experimentation, and The Future of Global Haiku. An introduction surveys haiku's influence beyond Japan, framing the collection historically and culturally, and sets the stage for new ways of understanding this global verse form. Haiku's elusiveness is partly what keeps it relevant today, and this book traces its evolution in many ways. It offers a critically minded and historically informed approach to haiku, making it an essential resource for students and researchers in Asian studies, literary studies, comparative literature, creative writing, and cultural studies.

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