Background
Hirata, Hosea was born on July 22, 1952 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. Came to the United States, 1971. Son of Masao and Kei (Aoto) Hirata.
( This book offers an in-depth investigation into the wri...)
This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valéry. Exploring both his poetry and theoretical writings, Hosea Hirata describes how Nishiwaki, who wrote his first poems in English and French, shaped a highly influential poetic modernism in Japan while elevating the artistic status of translation. This volume includes Nishiwaki's highly original essays on the nature of poetry, his first two collections of Japanese poems, and a poem meditating on the annihilation of symbolism. The author maintains that in Japan the language of modernism was that of translation. When Nishiwaki finally began to write poems in Japanese, a new poetic language was born in his country: a translatory language. Hirata elaborates this birth of new poetry via translation by referring to the theories of translation and of différance articulated by Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. The author reconsiders the view that translated texts are secondary to the originals, where the truth supposedly resides; instead he presents translation as an essential textual movement, écriture, toward the paradise of pure language and Poetry. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Hirata, Hosea was born on July 22, 1952 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan. Came to the United States, 1971. Son of Masao and Kei (Aoto) Hirata.
Bachelor, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1979. Master of Fine Arts, University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1981. Doctor of Philosophy, University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1987.
Assistant professor, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1987-1990; assistant professor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1990; C.G. Osgood preceptor, Princeton (New Jersey) U., since 1992.
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Member Association for Asian Studies, Association of Teachers Japanese, American Comparative Literature Association.
Married Catherine Costello, August 31, 1985. 1 child, Sean.