Poetic Kleptomania and Pseudo-Lyricism
Poetic Kleptomania and Pseudo-Lyricism
This chapter describes how Terayama Shūji plagiarized in a tanka competition as a way to emphasize the validity of adopting the words and ideas of another author. Terayama won the tanka competition but he was quickly discovered to have appropriated large sections from several contemporary haiku poets and to have rearranged and lengthened his own haiku by the fourteen syllables necessary to convert them into tanka. The chapter examines the poetic allusion of Terayama’s Casablanca, and explains how Terayama combines the tanka and haiku. It also gives an overview of a plagiarism debate that occurred after the competition.
Keywords: Terayama Shūji, Casablanca, plagiarism, tanka, haiku
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