Reading Du Fu : nine views
by
Tian, Xiaofei, 1971- editor.
Title
:
Reading Du Fu : nine views
Author
:
Tian, Xiaofei, 1971- editor.
ISBN
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9789888528448
Publication Information
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Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
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181 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note
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This book originated in an international conference on Du Fu that was held at Harvard University in October 2016, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, the Harvard-Yenching Institute, and the Department of East Asia Languages and Civilization at Harvard University.
Contents
:
Introduction / Xiaofei Tian -- Section I: Home, Locale, Empire. 1. Foundings of Home: On Du Fu and Poetic Success / Jack W. Chen ; 2. Thinking through Poetry: Du Fu's "Getting Rid of the Blues" (Jie men) / Stephen Owen ; 3. History Channels: Commemoration and Communication in Du Fu's Kuizhou Poems / Gregory Patterson ; 4. Ironic Empires / Lucas Rambo Bender -- Section II: Poetry and Buddhism. 5. Refuges and Refugees: How Du Fu Writes Buddhis / Paul Rouzer ; 6. Feeding the Phoenix: Du Fu's Qinzhou-Tonggu Series / Xiaofei Tian -- Section III: Reception and Re-creation. 7. Sources of Difficulty: Reading and Understanding Du Fu / Christopher M. B. Nugent ; 8. Ming-Qing Paintings Inscribed with Du Fu's Poetic Lines / Ronald Egan ; 9. Six Modernist Poets in Search of Du Fu / David Der-wei Wang.
Abstract
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This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu's poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary reception of Du Fu; poetry and visual art; and tradition and modernity.
Personal Subject
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Du, Fu, 712-770-Criticism and interpretation.
Du, Fu, 712-770.
Subject Term
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Poets, Chinese -- Tang dynasty, 618-907.
Poets, Chinese.
Tang Dynasty (China)
Genre
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author
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Tian, Xiaofei, 1971-
Bibliographical References
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Field 805
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npmlib 11000340 PL2675 R433 yh
| Library | Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Copy | Material Type | Status |
|---|
| NPM Library | PL2675 R433 2020 | 11000340 | 1 | B | *二館西文書一區 |