Reading philosophy, writing poetry : intertextual modes of making meaning in early medieval China
Title:
Reading philosophy, writing poetry : intertextual modes of making meaning in early medieval China
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
Author:
Swartz, Wendy, 1972- author.
ISBN:
9780674983823
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.
Series:
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 111.
Contents:
Reading and writing in early medieval China -- Xi Kang and the poetics of bricolage -- The poetic repertoire of Sun Chuo -- The Lanting Excursion and Xuanyan poetry -- The "spontaneous" poet Tao Yuanming as an intertext -- Reading and roaming the landscape: the classic of changes in Xie Lingyun's poetry.
Abstract:
"Examines how early medieval writers in China understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by the most important and innovative poets of the period, it explores intertextuality--the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs--as a mode of reading and a condition of writing"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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