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The Poetics of Motoori Norinaga : A Hermeneutical Journey by Michael F. Marra, Michael F. Marra is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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One of Japan's most renowned intellectuals, Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) is perhaps best known for his notion of mono no aware, a detailed description of the workings of emotions as the precondition for the poetic act. As a poet and a theoretician of poetry, Norinaga had a keen eye for etymologies and other archaeological practices aimed at recovering the depth and richness of the Japanese language. This volume contains his major works on the Yamato region--the heartland of Japanese culture--including one of his most famous poetic diaries, The Sedge Hat Diary (Sugagasa no Nikki), translated into English here for the first time.Written in 1772 while Norinaga journeyed through Yamato and the Yoshino area, The Sedge Hat Diary was composed in the style of Heian prose and is interspersed with fifty-five poems. It offers important insights into Norinaga the poet, the scholar of ancient texts, the devout believer in Shinto deities, and the archaeologist searching for traces of ancient capitals, palaces, shrines, and imperial tombs of the pre-Nara period. In this piece Norinaga presents Yoshino as a "common poetic space" that readers must inhabit to develop
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael F. Marra, Michael F. Marra
- Publisher
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781435666351
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction
