Reading Du Fu: nine views
This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu's poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individu…
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- Full title :Reading Du Fu : nine views / edited by Xiaofei Tian.
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This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu's poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary reception of Du Fu; poetry and visual art; and tradition and modernity.
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- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hong Kong University Press
- Place of Publication:Hong Kong
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
The Physical Object
- Description:181 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln : : Illustrationen.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789888528448, 9888528440
- oclc:on1196222107
- Dewey Decimal:895
Table of Contents
Introduction / Xiaofei Tian -- Section I: Home, Locale, Empire. 1. Foundings of Home: On Du Fu and Poetic Success / Jack W. Chen ; 2. Thinking through Poetry: Du Fu's "Getting Rid of the Blues" (Jie men) / Stephen Owen ; 3. History Channels: Commemoration and Communication in Du Fu's Kuizhou Poems / Gregory Patterson ; 4. Ironic Empires / Lucas Rambo Bender -- Section II: Poetry and Buddhism. 5. Refuges and Refugees: How Du Fu Writes Buddhis / Paul Rouzer ; 6. Feeding the Phoenix: Du Fu's Qinzhou-Tonggu Series / Xiaofei Tian -- Section III: Reception and Re-creation. 7. Sources of Difficulty: Reading and Understanding Du Fu / Christopher M. B. Nugent ; 8. Ming-Qing Paintings Inscribed with Du Fu's Poetic Lines / Ronald Egan ; 9. Six Modernist Poets in Search of Du Fu / David Der-wei Wang.
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