<p>The dissertation is a study of the poetics of haikai in eighteenth-century Japan. It is more specifically concerned with the works of Yosa Buson and some of his followers. Rather than being a study of certain poems, it is an investigation of theories of aesthetics and composition, and of criticism. Most studies of haikai focus on the short haiku (or hokku) form, but the present study is more concerned with the core form of this poetry, the long chains of verses called "renku" or "haikai no renga".</p><p>One important object of this study is to challenge some of the established views of haikai found in modern scholarship. For this purpose, many standpoints of haikai theory have been found useful, since they often approach questions of interpretation from new and unexpected angles. Theoretical stances that stress convention and traditionalism are criticized and the spirit of haikai is found to be more in concord with theories of cognitive poetics.</p><p>The dissertation consists of three parts. The first is a study of general haikai theory. In this part are discussed theories of aesthetics, theories of creativity, and a few questions related to the interpretation of this kind of poetry. This discussion focuses on those questions that are central in Buson’s own writing on poetics and puts them into a broader context.</p><p>The second part deals with practical theories of renku composing. An introductory chapter gives a historical background to many concepts used in Buson’s age, and this is followed by a full translation and critical study of a renku treatise written by his disciple Takai Kitō.</p><p>The last part is an investigation of modern criticism written on Buson’s renku. All existing full-length studies of these poems are discussed in comparison. The absence of a long critical tradition concerning Buson’s renku has, in many cases, prevented the formation of established interpretations, and this is ideal for a study of this kind.</p>

The dissertation is a study of the poetics of haikai in eighteenth-century Japan. It is more specifically concerned with the works of Yosa Buson and some of his followers. Rather than being a study of certain poems, it is an investigation of theories of aesthetics and composition, and of criticism. Most studies of haikai focus on the short haiku (or hokku) form, but the present study is more concerned with the core form of this poetry, the long chains of verses called "renku" or "haikai no renga". One important object of this study is to challenge some of the established views of haikai found in modern scholarship. For this purpose, many standpoints of haikai theory have been found useful, since they often approach questions of interpretation from new and unexpected angles. Theoretical stances that stress convention and traditionalism are criticized and the spirit of haikai is found to be more in concord with theories of cognitive poetics. The dissertation consists of three parts. The first is a study of general haikai theory. In this part are discussed theories of aesthetics, theories of creativity, and a few questions related to the interpretation of this kind of poetry. This discussion focuses on those questions that are central in Buson’s own writing on poetics and puts them into a broader context. The second part deals with practical theories of renku composing. An introductory chapter gives a historical background to many concepts used in Buson’s age, and this is followed by a full translation and critical study of a renku treatise written by his disciple Takai Kitō. The last part is an investigation of modern criticism written on Buson’s renku. All existing full-length studies of these poems are discussed in comparison. The absence of a long critical tradition concerning Buson’s renku has, in many cases, prevented the formation of established interpretations, and this is ideal for a study of this kind.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2006-08-30Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:30:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 ferreira_lv_me_sjrp.pdf: 944969 bytes, checksum: 76d1c3f452f6109d87388865cd9e8a63 (MD5) / Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar a dicção poética de Renato Gonda (1959- ) em seu livro AD NADA (1994). Nesta obra encontramos breves e condensadas manifestações poéticas - “101 haikais ou quase” (assim os denomina o próprio sujeito lírico). A confluência de registros poéticos datados e consagrados imprime uma informação estética diversificada, característica freqüente na cena literária contemporânea brasileira. Em relação ao conteúdo, os poemas de AD NADA apresentam um caráter niilista que impulsiona seu sujeito lírico a reconsiderar/questionar as concepções absolutas presentes na nossa existência, tal como a noção de Deus, imposta ao homem, principalmente, pela metafísica e teologia ocidental. Repensar tais conceitos é repensar também a linguagem automatizada e ter a possibilidade de criar uma outra que desestabilize os discursos cristalizados e estereotipados que subjugam a condição humana. A partir dessas perspectivas, analisaremos e interpretaremos a configuração do niilismo na obra para, então, verificarmos como esse posicionamento frente ao mundo influencia o fazer poético do eu-lírico e a sua relação com a palavra poética. / This thesis is aimed at investigating the poetic diction of Renato Gonda (1959- ) in AD NADA, a work which contains his brief poetic manifestations: “101 haikais ou quase” (101 haikus or almost), as the author himself calls them. The confluence of dated and consecrated poetic registers imparts a diversified aesthetic information, a frequent characteristic found in the contemporary Brazilian literary scene. As for theme, the poems of Ad Nada present a nihilistic character which leads their lyric subject to reconsider or to call in question the absolute conceptions present in our life, such as the notion of God, imposed to man mainly by western metaphysics or theology. To rethink such concepts is also to rethink automatized language and have the possibility of creating another one, which destabilizes the crystallized and stereotyped discourses which subjugate human condition. On the basis of such perspectives, nihilism will be analyzed and interpreted in the work at hand in order to verify how this positioning before the world influences the poetical work of the lyric self and its relationship with the poetic word.

Orientador: Rogério Elpidio Chociay / Banca: Nelson Luis Ramos / Banca: Kenia Maria de Almeida Pereira / Resumo: Esta dissertação tem por objetivo investigar a dicção poética de Renato Gonda (1959- ) em seu livro AD NADA (1994). Nesta obra encontramos breves e condensadas manifestações poéticas - "101 haikais ou quase" (assim os denomina o próprio sujeito lírico). A confluência de registros poéticos datados e consagrados imprime uma informação estética diversificada, característica freqüente na cena literária contemporânea brasileira. Em relação ao conteúdo, os poemas de AD NADA apresentam um caráter niilista que impulsiona seu sujeito lírico a reconsiderar/questionar as concepções absolutas presentes na nossa existência, tal como a noção de Deus, imposta ao homem, principalmente, pela metafísica e teologia ocidental. Repensar tais conceitos é repensar também a linguagem automatizada e ter a possibilidade de criar uma outra que desestabilize os discursos cristalizados e estereotipados que subjugam a condição humana. A partir dessas perspectivas, analisaremos e interpretaremos a configuração do niilismo na obra para, então, verificarmos como esse posicionamento frente ao mundo influencia o fazer poético do eu-lírico e a sua relação com a palavra poética. / Abstract: This thesis is aimed at investigating the poetic diction of Renato Gonda (1959- ) in AD NADA, a work which contains his brief poetic manifestations: "101 haikais ou quase" (101 haikus or almost), as the author himself calls them. The confluence of dated and consecrated poetic registers imparts a diversified aesthetic information, a frequent characteristic found in the contemporary Brazilian literary scene. As for theme, the poems of Ad Nada present a nihilistic character which leads their lyric subject to reconsider or to call in question the absolute conceptions present in our life, such as the notion of God, imposed to man mainly by western metaphysics or theology. To rethink such concepts is also to rethink automatized language and have the possibility of creating another one, which destabilizes the crystallized and stereotyped discourses which subjugate human condition. On the basis of such perspectives, nihilism will be analyzed and interpreted in the work at hand in order to verify how this positioning before the world influences the poetical work of the lyric self and its relationship with the poetic word. / Mestre

Critics often credit Ezra Pound and his Imagist movement for the development of American poetics. Pound’s interest in international arts and minimalist aesthetics of cross-cultural poetry gained the attention of prominent writers throughout Modernist and Post-Modern periods. From writers like Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein to later poets like Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder, image and precise language has shaped American literature. Few critics have praised Eastern cultures or the Imagist poets who adopted an East-Western form of poetics: Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams. Studying traditional Eastern painting and short-form poetry and interactions with personal connections to the East, Lowell and Williams adapt then progress aesthetic fusions Pound began and abandoned through his interpretation of Eastern art. Like Pound, Lowell and Williams illustrate a mix of form, free-verse language, and modernized poetics to not only imitate Eastern art but to create poetics of international discourse which shape American Modernism.

El presente trabajo analiza la aproximación al haiku de Javier Sologuren y Alfonso Cisneros Cox en el marco del creciente interés por este género a nivel latinoamericano. El análisis se centra en la comparación de los haikus con el modelo clásico japonés, tal como lo practicó Matsuo Bashō, siguiendo las teorías de los estudiosos Keene, Rodríguez Izquierdo, Rubio, Blyth y Haya Segovia. El haiku es valorado y ponderado como una expresión poética orientada a evocar un instante de experiencia en la naturaleza, logrando despertar el asombro ante la maravilla de la existencia. Los resultados del trabajo revelan la íntima afinidad de ambos poetas con el género, las modalidades de apropiación que practicaron, la priorización de ciertos aspectos estilísticos y espirituales en su comprensión del haiku, la innovación en los recursos para lograrlo y la singularidad de sus creaciones, basada en la mezcla auténtica del género con sus propias poéticas. La principal conclusión que puede desprenderse de este trabajo es que los autores asimilaron este género poético para dar forma y expresión a su particular sensibilidad e integrarlo a la tradición poética peruana.