<div></div><P>For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate literatures. In this pioneering book
The Matrix of Lyric Transformation Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry
β Scribed by Zong-qi Cai
- Publisher
- Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 273
- Series
- Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, Vol. 75
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Overview: Pentasyllabic Poetry from the First to the Third Century
Chapter 2: Han YΓΌeh-fu: Dramatic and Narrative Modes
Chapter 3: Han Ku-shih: The Emergence of the Lyrical Mode
Chapter 4: Ts'ao Chih: The Development of the Lyrical Mode
Chapter 5: Juan Chi: The Formation of the Symbolic Mode
Chapter 6: Synthesis: Poetic Modes and Changing Forms of Self-Presentation
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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