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Lore and Verse
- Poems on History in Early Medieval China
Af: Yue Zhang
Engelsk Hardback
Lore and Verse
- Poems on History in Early Medieval China
Af: Yue Zhang
Engelsk Hardback

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Explores how poetry was used to disseminate and interpret history in early medieval China.

Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220–589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through poetry, as well as how and why certain historical figures were commemorated in poetry. In writing poems on history, poets retrospectively crafted their own identities through their celebration of historical figures, and they prospectively fortified a continuous lineage for transmitting their values and reputation to future generations. This continuous tradition of cultural memory informs a poet''s reception of historical figures, which in turn shapes that tradition through further intertextual connections. Lore and Verse questions the sweeping generalization of early medieval Chinese poetry as consisting mainly of exuberant images and an ornamental style-an inaccurate characterization repeated by later historians and literary critics-and it provides translations, close readings, and analyses of selected poems on history that will be useful for students, instructors, and general readers interested in premodern Chinese literature and culture.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781438486918
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
143848691X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 jan 2022
Længde:
0mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
1 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
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