The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies #75)

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Synopsis
Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.
Copyright:
1997

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780472127498
Related ISBNs:
9780892641116, 9780472038053
Publisher:
University of Michigan Press
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Copyrighted By:
Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Adult content:
No
Language:
English, Chinese
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies
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Bookshare Staff
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