The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with the genre - in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic and philosophical contexts) and with haiku-inspired works of different Western authors. The book also touches upon various translatological problems.
The monograph presents the Polish history of haiku and the forms associated with this genre - in literature and visual arts. Polish works are confronted with Japanese poetry (along with its aesthetic, philosophical and ethical contexts) and with haiku-inspired miniatures produced by poets from various European and American countries. The book also touches upon the theory of literary genres and translatological problems (translations of Japanese haiku as a touchstone of changes in Western literature). The presented discussion with haiku as the central theme allows for a unique and panoramic perspective of Polish poetry of the last hundred years. It also facilitates original analyses of the relationship between literature and visual arts - in the field of book art, painting and multimedia.
haiku - Polish poetry - literary genres - Japanese poetry - visual arts - verbo-visuality - transculturality - Modernism - translation studies - mindfulness - intertextuality - miniature poems - book art - typography - calligraphy - Japanese culture - senryu - haiga - sumi-e - haibun - Zen Buddhism - Taoism
Beata Sniecikowska is a literary scholar and art historian, Associate Professor in the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. Her main research areas are intersections of literature and visual arts, as well as figures of sound in experimental poetry.
