Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

Av Anne Birrell

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This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC – AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Dr Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, dating, attribution, textual variants, multiforms, metre, generic title, song title and structure. This careful and thorough treatment is especially necessary for a corpus of anonymous popular texts which are often corrupt, structurally confusing, laconic and full of nonsense words and colloquialisms. Her introductory essay provides a socio-historical context for this material and charts its literary transmission, while singling out special characteristics of the genre, such as musical, oral and dramatic elements. The main text, arranged into eleven chapters plus an introduction, is supplemented by notes, appendices, maps, chronology, bibliography and index.

Produktinformation

  • Utgivningsdatum2023-10-15
  • Mått156 x 234 x 13 mm
  • Vikt450 g
  • FormatHäftad
  • SpråkEngelska
  • SerieRoutledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
  • Antal sidor238
  • FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
  • ISBN9780367770761