Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
Title | Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Owen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics
Title | Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Owen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 303 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Chinese poetry |
ISBN | 9780608204659 |
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry
Title | An Introduction to Chinese Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Fuller |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1684175836 |
"This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets and poems of the Chinese poetic tradition from earliest times to the lyrics of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context for the poetry of a particular period and provides a brief biography for each poet. Each of the poems appears in the original Chinese with a word-by-word translation, followed by Michael A. Fuller’s unadorned translation, and a more polished version by modern translators. A question-based study guide highlights the important issues in reading and understanding each particular text.Designed for classroom use and for self-study, the textbook’s goal is to help the reader appreciate both the distinctive voices of the major writers in the Chinese poetic tradition and the grand contours of the development of that tradition."
Language-Paradox-Poetics
Title | Language-Paradox-Poetics PDF eBook |
Author | James J.Y. Liu |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-07-14 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1400859689 |
In attempting to define a "poetics of paradox" from a traditional Chinese standpoint, James Liu explores through a comparative approach linguistic, textual, and interpretive problems of relevance to Western literary criticism. Liu's study evolves from a paradoxical view--originating from early Confucian and Daoist philosophical texts--that the less is "said" in poetry, the more is "meant." Such a view implied the existence of paradox in the very use of language and led traditional Chinese hermeneutics to a study of "metaparadox"--the use of language to explicate texts the meaning of which transcends language itself. As Liu illustrates elements of traditional Chinese hermeneutics with examples of poetic and critical works, he makes comparisons with the works of such Western literary figures as Shakespeare, Mallarme, Pound, Ionesco, Derrida, and Shepard. The comparisons bring to light a crucial difference in conceptualization of language: Chinese critics, especially those influenced by Daoism and Buddhism, seem to have held a deitic view of language (language points to things), whereas Western critics seem to have thought of language as primarily mimetic (language represents things). Liu examines the consequences of these views, showing how both offer insights into the "meaning" of text and to what extent both have led to a "metaparadox of interpretation." Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Title | The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Owen |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
This study of poetry composed between the end of the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E. examines extant material synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged. It also considers how scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry.
Poetry and Power of Judgment
Title | Poetry and Power of Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Song Ye |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2024-07-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1040048013 |
This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and appreciating classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people’s evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition. The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that “Poetry is founded upon the power of judgement (shi).” This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art. The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion. Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book interesting.
Poetry and Power of Judgment
Title | Poetry and Power of Judgment PDF eBook |
Author | Ye Song |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | Chinese poetry |
ISBN | 9781032785738 |
"This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people's evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition. The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that "judgment (shi) is the foundation of poetry". This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art. The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion. Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book of interest"--