Fu Genre of Imperial China
Studies in the Rhapsodic Imagination
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
Av Nicholas Morrow Williams, University of Hong Kong) Williams, Nicholas Morrow (Assistant Professor in the School of Chinese
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Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.This is the first book in English to examine the fu, one of China’s oldest and culturally central literary forms, from its origins up to the late imperial era. Fu poems are highly revealing sources for understanding the culture, society, and politics of their periods. Though no English term even approximates it, “rhapsody” at least suggests the energy and recitative origins of the fu, which is a poetic form of tireless ambition that has been used for exhaustive descriptions of cities and palaces, as well as private reflections and lamentations, but also for carefully modulated political protest and esoteric ruminations on philosophical subtleties. In this volume, eleven essays by prominent scholars treat the fu from four major perspectives: its original use in court recitation; as a poetic genre with distinctive formal features; as a vehicle of philosophical inquiry; and as a major mode of political expression.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2019-11-30
- Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
- Vikt499 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieEast Meets West: East Asia and Its Periphery from 200 BCE to 1600 CE
- Antal sidor256
- FörlagArc Humanities Press
- ISBN9781641893312