Author: Michael Fuller Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684170702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 540
Book Description
What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shipoetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960–1127) to the end of the Southern Song (1127–1279), a period of profound social and cultural transformation. Shi poetry written in response to events was the dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, serving as a central form through which literati explored meaning in their encounters with the world. By the late Northern Song, however, old models for meaning were proving inadequate, and Daoxue (Neo-Confucianism) provided an increasingly attractive new ground for understanding the self and the world. Drifting among Rivers and Lakes traces the intertwining of the practice of poetry, writings on poetics, and the debates about Daoxue that led to the cultural synthesis of the final years of the Southern Song and set the pattern for Chinese society for the next six centuries. Examining the writings of major poets and Confucian thinkers of the period, Fuller discovers the slow evolution of a complementarity between poetry and Daoxue in which neither discourse was self-sufficient.
Author: Michael Anthony Fuller Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674073227 Category : Chinese literature Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The dominant literary genre in Song dynasty China, shi poetry reflected profound changes occurring in Chinese culture from 960-1279. Michael Fuller traces the intertwining of shi poetry and Neo-Confucianism that led to the cultural synthesis of the last years of the Southern Song and set the pattern of Chinese society for the next six centuries.
Author: Hongsheng Zhang Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004522956 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 547
Book Description
How did poets from the "Rivers and Lakes," a realm defined by its remoteness from the central government, navigate and transform the field of classical poetry, a "high" genre of the scholar-officials class? What did it mean for them to "make a living" out of poetry? Zhang Hongsheng answers those questions in this comprehensive study of the Rivers and Lakes Poetry Movement (Jianghu shipai).
Author: Lucas Rambo Bender Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 1684176484 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
Often considered China’s greatest poet, Du Fu (712–770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization’s continued stability and prosperity. When his society collapsed into civil war in 755, however, he began to question contemporary assumptions about the role that tradition should play in making sense of experience and defining human flourishing. In this book, Lucas Bender argues that Du Fu’s reconsideration of the nature and importance of tradition has played a pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding over the last millennium. In reimagining his relationship to tradition, Du Fu anticipated important philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and perduring paradigm of poetry’s relationship to ethics. He also looked forward to the transformations his own poetry would undergo as it was elevated to the pinnacle of the Chinese poetic pantheon.
Author: Jue Chen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004539867 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 240
Book Description
Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712–770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960–1279). Jue Chen not only argues in his work that Du Fu was constructed according to particular literary and intellectual agendas of Song literati but also that conventional labels applied to Du Fu do not accurately represent this construction campaign. He also discusses how Du Fu’s image as the greatest poet sheds unique light on issues that can deepen our understanding of the subtleties in the poetic culture of Song China.
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1465421130 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
Pack up your bags for a round the world trip! You'll take in natural wonders far and wide as this spectacular visual encyclopedia leads the exciting exploration of Earth and beyond. From the tallest snowy peak of Mount Everest to the deep, dark waters of the Mariana Trench, you'll see it all in stunning color images that bring the world to life. Feel the heat in the African desert, take a walk through the lush forests of South America, and swim out to the Australian coral reefs on this unforgettable journey. Learn about geological processes that have shaped our planet for thousands of years, from ice ages and earthquakes to global warming and tsunamis. Hundreds of pages filled with fast facts, annotated artworks, and packed profiles ensure the experience is both exciting and educational. Physical and political maps pinpoint places, while continent and country fact files reveal what is happening all over the world. Geography: A Visual Encyclopedia puts the world in one place for you to take wherever you go. Broaden your mind and expand your horizons with the ultimate guide to our amazing Earth.
Author: Jason Protass Publisher: University of Hawaii Press ISBN: 082488907X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 353
Book Description
Chinese Buddhist monks of the Song dynasty (960–1279) called the irresistible urge to compose poetry “the poetry demon.” In this ambitious study, Jason Protass seeks to bridge the fields of Buddhist studies and Chinese literature to examine the place of poetry in the lives of Song monks. Although much has been written about verses in the gong’an (Jpn. kōan) tradition, very little is known about the large corpora—roughly 30,000 extant poems—composed by these monastics. Protass addresses the oversight by using strategies associated with religious studies, literary studies, and sociology. He weaves together poetry with a wide range of monastic sources and in doing so argues against positing a “literary Chan” movement that wrote poetry as a path to awakening; he instead presents an understanding of monks’ poetry grounded in the Song discourse of monks themselves. The work begins by examining how monks fashioned new genres, created their own books, and fueled a monastic audience for monks’ poetry. It traces the evolution of gāthā from hymns found in Buddhist scripture to an independent genre for poems associated with Chan masters as living buddhas. While Song monastic culture produced a prodigious amount of verse, at the same time it promoted prohibitions against monks’ participation in poetry as a worldly or Confucian art: This constructive tension was an animating force. The Poetry Demon highlights this and other intersections of Buddhist doctrine with literary sociality and charts productive pathways through numerous materials, including collections of Chan “recorded sayings,” monastic rulebooks, “eminent monk” and “flame record” hagiographies, manuscripts of poetry, Buddhist encyclopedia, primers, and sūtra commentary. Two chapter-length case studies illustrate how Song monks participated in two of the most prominent and conservative modes of poetry of the time, those of parting and mourning. Protass reveals how monks used Chan humor with reference to emptiness to transform acts of separation into Buddhist teachings. In another chapter, monks in mourning expressed their grief and dharma through poetry. The Poetry Demon impressively uncovers new and creative ways to study Chinese Buddhist monks’ poetry while contributing to the broader study of Chinese religion and literature.
Author: Sangzhang Juan Publisher: ATF Press ISBN: 1921816880 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 151
Book Description
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces the funeral conception and manners, burial methods, criteria for choosing burial sites, mourning garments of the dead's relatives and mourning life in Chinese history, and so on. It reveals the development and evolution process of Chinese funeral customs, making readers have a further understanding of Chinese funeral customs and taboos different nationalities comprehensively.
Author: Michael Fuller
Author: Michael Anthony Fuller
Author: Hongsheng Zhang
Author: M. Munawar
Author: Lucas Rambo Bender
Author: Jue Chen
Author: DK
Author: Jason Protass
Author: Illinois. Division of Waterways
Author: Sangzhang Juan