Contemporary Tanka Criticism Award
不可解な殺意―短歌定型という可能性
Masumi Morii's essay “A Cry from the Internet” asks how tanka and literature relate to forms of publication after the rise of the internet. It was later included in the critical collection Incomprehensible Murderous Intent.
Work Information
A critical essay that rethinks the relation between tanka, medium, and work from an internet-era sensibility.
The award-winning work was a magazine essay, later included in Masumi Morii's 2008 collection Incomprehensible Murderous Intent: The Possibility of Fixed-Form Tanka. It is a critical essay on the intersections among tanka, media, and contemporary society.
Review Summaries
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The essay is valued for connecting contemporary social conditions with questions in tanka. It looks toward the internet and light novels, reading phenomena outside tanka as clues to the foundations of literature.
Book Information
- Publisher
- ながらみ書房
- Published
- 2008-12-01
- Pages
- 236 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784860235703
- ISBN-10
- 4860235703
- Price
- 972 JPY
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