Description:
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 – senryū – haiga – sumi-e – haibun – Zen Buddhism – Taoism
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