Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media (New Interventions in Japanese Studies #6)

Synopsis

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Expanding Verse explores experimental poetic practice at key moments of transition in Japan's media landscape from the 1920s to the present. Andrew Campana centers hybrid poetic forms in modern and contemporary Japan—many of which have never been examined in detail before—including the cinepoem, the tape recorder poem, the protest performance poem, the music video poem, the online sign language poem, and the augmented reality poem. Drawing together approaches from literary, media, and disability studies, he contends that poetry actively aimed to disrupt the norms of media in each era. For the poets in Expanding Verse, poetry was not a medium in and of itself but a way to push back against what new media technologies crystallized and perpetuated. Their aim was to challenge dominant conceptions of embodiment and sensation, as well as who counts as a poet and what counts as poetry. Over and over, poetic practice became a way to think about each medium otherwise, and to find new possibilities at the edge of media.

Copyright:

2025

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780520399228

Related ISBNs:

9780520399211

Publisher:

University of California Press

Date of Addition:

12/10/24

Copyrighted By:

Andrew Campana

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No

Language:

English

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Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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