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Matsuo Bashô 松尾芭蕉 and the Poetics of Fûkyô 風狂
Matsuo Bashô (1644-1694), known as one of Japan’s greatest poets, celebrated fûkyô (poetic eccentricity) as an important theme in his poetry. Why is deliberate eccentricity considered a poetic quality? What aesthetic, philosophical, and spiritual ideas are embodied in his eccentric personas? How the poetics of eccentricity formed and transformed over time and across cultures? This webinar explores these questions by examining selected poems and prose by Bashô, his predecessors, and disciples. Relevant Chinese classics are examined in discussing the cultural and philosophical contexts. The discussion draws on my book Bashô and the Dao: The Zhuangzi and the Transformation of Haikai.
Date:
27 November 2020, 12:00
Venue:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aWAL2e23T5-Dxc9cNGSlVA
Speaker:
Professor Peipei Qiu (Vassar College)
Organisers:
Dr Giulio Pugliese (University of Oxford),
Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford),
Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
natalia.doan@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Part of:
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aWAL2e23T5-Dxc9cNGSlVA
Cost:
Free
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Natalia Doan
