Teika’s Poetics
Numerous poetic treatises have been attributed to Teika, some fraudulently. This chapter attempts to derive Teika’s poetics based on explicit and implicit remarks he made about waka poetry. It begins by first determining the limits of Teika’s theoretical oeuvre, and excludes from consideration the texts Maigetsushō (Monthly Notes) and Teika jittei (Teika’s Ten Styles). The remaining texts suggest that Teika held a pessimistic view of the ability of language to represent lived experience, and that he valorized a style prevalent among poets in the ninth century, in which the words carried unspoken overtones.
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2018 ◽
Vol 12
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pp. 190-202
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2019 ◽
pp. 229-10.33526/EJKS.20191901.229
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2017 ◽
Vol 2
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pp. 103-114
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