Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric
This article will focus on the theory of poetics Terayama Shūji develops in Postwar Poetry: The Absence of Ulysses (<i>Sengoshi: yurishīzu no fuzai</i>, 1965) and Language as Violence (<i>Bōryoku toshite no gengo</i>, 1970). Postwar Poetry, his first theoretical writings on p...
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| description | This article will focus on the theory of poetics Terayama Shūji develops in Postwar Poetry: The Absence of Ulysses (<i>Sengoshi: yurishīzu no fuzai</i>, 1965) and Language as Violence (<i>Bōryoku toshite no gengo</i>, 1970). Postwar Poetry, his first theoretical writings on prose poetry, can be said to be a book about the poetic communication and “discommunication”—a wasei-eigo coinage of Tsurumi Shunsuke’s that Terayama frequently invokes—that occurs in mass communication, stemming from the conflict with print (katsuji). In this book, Terayama develops not autonomous “monologue”, but a theory of the taiwa/dialogue of poetry. However, Language as Violence contains not only the taiwa (dialogue) of his early poetics but the problem of bōryoku (violence) in his later theatrical works and theory of theater, which becomes an important theme in his body of work. Comparing with Georges Sorel’s Réflexions sur la violence that he cited, I would like to examine the description of the book’s titualar violence. As I shed light on Terayama’s poetics and view of language, I will attempt to establish a connection with his plays and theory of theater. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c7e5c13687424b27a81007568db158792023-11-19T01:22:36ZengMDPI AGHumanities2076-07872023-07-011247410.3390/h12040074Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the TheatricShunsuke Okada0Jason M. Beckman1Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tate 2-8-7-404, Shiki 353-0006, Saitama Prefecture, JapanDepartment of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University, 521 Memorial Way Knight Building, Stanford, CA 94305, USAThis article will focus on the theory of poetics Terayama Shūji develops in Postwar Poetry: The Absence of Ulysses (<i>Sengoshi: yurishīzu no fuzai</i>, 1965) and Language as Violence (<i>Bōryoku toshite no gengo</i>, 1970). Postwar Poetry, his first theoretical writings on prose poetry, can be said to be a book about the poetic communication and “discommunication”—a wasei-eigo coinage of Tsurumi Shunsuke’s that Terayama frequently invokes—that occurs in mass communication, stemming from the conflict with print (katsuji). In this book, Terayama develops not autonomous “monologue”, but a theory of the taiwa/dialogue of poetry. However, Language as Violence contains not only the taiwa (dialogue) of his early poetics but the problem of bōryoku (violence) in his later theatrical works and theory of theater, which becomes an important theme in his body of work. Comparing with Georges Sorel’s Réflexions sur la violence that he cited, I would like to examine the description of the book’s titualar violence. As I shed light on Terayama’s poetics and view of language, I will attempt to establish a connection with his plays and theory of theater.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/12/4/74modern Japanese literaturepostwar poetryprint industrymass communicationexperimental theatre |
| spellingShingle | Shunsuke Okada Jason M. Beckman Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric Humanities modern Japanese literature postwar poetry print industry mass communication experimental theatre |
| title | Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric |
| title_full | Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric |
| title_fullStr | Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric |
| title_full_unstemmed | Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric |
| title_short | Communication and Violence in the Poetics of Terayama Shūji: From the Poetic to the Theatric |
| title_sort | communication and violence in the poetics of terayama shuji from the poetic to the theatric |
| topic | modern Japanese literature postwar poetry print industry mass communication experimental theatre |
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