The Burden of Female Talent
Title | The Burden of Female Talent PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Egan |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684170745 |
Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China’s literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But at what price to our understanding of her as a writer does this distinction come? The Burden of Female Talent challenges conventional modes of thinking about Li Qingzhao as a devoted but often lonely wife and, later, a forlorn widow. By examining manipulations of her image by the critical tradition in later imperial times and into the twentieth century, Ronald C. Egan brings to light the ways in which critics sought to accommodate her to cultural norms, molding her “talent” to make it compatible with ideals of womanly conduct and identity. Contested images of Li, including a heated controversy concerning her remarriage and its implications for her “devotion” to her first husband, reveal the difficulty literary culture has had in coping with this woman of extraordinary conduct and ability. The study ends with a reappraisal of Li’s poetry, freed from the autobiographical and reductive readings that were traditionally imposed on it and which remain standard even today.
Remarkable Women
Title | Remarkable Women PDF eBook |
Author | Karen D. Arnold |
Publisher | Hampton Press (NJ) |
Pages | 518 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Achievement motivation in women |
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Remarkable Women: Perspectives on Female Talent Development is the first book to consolidate and expand existing knowledge about highly capable women and the internal and external forces that lead them to extraordinary adult accomplishment. The collected studies include women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains whose paths to exceptional achievement illuminate the nature of female talent development and provide models to help more women fulfill their promise in adulthood.
Your Loss
Title | Your Loss PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Ioannidis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Women executives |
ISBN | 9780956766601 |
The Works of Li Qingzhao
Title | The Works of Li Qingzhao PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Egan |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2019-01-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501504436 |
Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true voice of Li Qingzhao is very different. A new translation and presentation of her is needed to appreciate her genius and to account for the sense that Chinese readers have always had, despite what scholars and critics were saying, about the boldness and originality of her work. The introduction will lay out the problems of critical refashioning and conventionalization of her carried out in the centuries after her death, thus preparing the reader for a new reading. Her songs and poetry will then be presented in a way that breaks free of a narrow autobiographical reading of them, distinguishes between reliable and unreliable attributions, and also shows the great range of her talent by including important prose pieces and seldom read poems. In this way, the standard image of Li Qingzhao, exemplied by a handful of her best known and largely misunderstood works, will be challenged and replaced by a new understanding. The volume will present a literary portrait of Li Qingzhao radically unlike the one in conventional anthologies and literary histories, allowing English readers for the first time to appreciate her distinctiveness as a writer and to properly gauge her achievement as a female alternative, as poet and essayist, to the male literary culture of her day.
The Threshold
Title | The Threshold PDF eBook |
Author | Zeb Raft |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2023-04-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684176581 |
What happens when historiography--the way historical events are committed to writing--shapes historical events as they occur? How do we read biography when it is truly "life-writing," its subjects fully engaged with the historiographical rhetoric that would record their words and deeds?
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2024)
Title | Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Art and Cultural Exchange (ICLACE 2024) PDF eBook |
Author | Chaoqun Shen |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 2384762656 |
Crossing the Gate
Title | Crossing the Gate PDF eBook |
Author | Man Xu |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 2016-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1438463219 |
Challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. In Crossing the Gate, Man Xu examines the lives of women in the Chinese province of Fujian during the Song dynasty. Tracking womens life experience across class lines, outside as well as inside the domestic realm, Xu challenges the accepted wisdom about women and gender roles in medieval China. She contextualizes women in a much broader physical space and social network, investigating the gaps between ideals and reality and examining womens own agency in gender construction. She argues that womens autonomy and mobility, conventionally attributed to Ming-Qing women of late imperial China, can be traced to the Song era. This thorough study of Song womens life experience connects women to the great political, economic, and social transitions of the time, and sheds light on the so-called Song-Yuan-Ming transition from the perspective of gender studies. By putting women at the center of analysis and by focusing on the local and the quotidian, Crossing the Gate offers a new and nuanced picture of the Song Confucian revival.