Optical allusions [[electronic resource] ] : screens, paintings, and poetry in classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) / / by Joseph T. Sorensen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779392403321
• Autore: Sorensen Joseph T
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-99575-0; 9786613767363; 90-04-23151-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Collana: Brill's Japanese studies library, , 0925-6512 ; ; 40
• Disciplina: 895.6/1009
• Soggetti: Japanese poetry - Heian period, 794-1185 - History and criticism; Literature in art; Screen painting, Japanese - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Thinking with Pictures -- 1. Screens and Poems, Contexts and Images -- 2. The Efflorescence of Screen Poetry -- 3. The Dai Is Cast -- 4. Politics and Precedence -- Conclusion: Poetic Conception, Poetic Vision -- Appendix A: Screen Poems Predating Kokinshū (905) -- Appendix B: Translation from Tales of Times Now Past -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200) , Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese court poetry. In his examination of the important genre later termed screen poetry, Sorensen employs ekphrasis (the literary description of a visual art object) as a framework to analyze poems composed on or for painted screens. He provides close readings of poems and their social, political, and cultural contexts to argue the importance of the visual arts in the formation of Japanese poetics and poetic conventions.