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Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice
Title:
Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice

Harvard East Asian monographs ;
Author:
Steininger, Brian, author.
ISBN:
9780674975156
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series:
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401.
Contents:
Introduction -- Gifts and governors : Heian capital society in Utsuho monogatari -- Honchō monzui and the social dynamics of literary culture -- Couplet collections and aesthetic strategy -- Glosses and primers : Heian education and literacy -- Reading out loud : literary writing and oral performance -- Conclusion : the changing purview of literary Sinitic -- Appendix A. Selections from Sakumon diatai -- Appendix B. Preface to Wamyō ruijushō.
Abstract:
"Examines the transformation of Chinese literary genres in mid-Heian Japan by focusing on the ritualized recitation practices through which these works were performed and heard. This reconstruction of recitation as both a social and literary act demonstrates Sinographic literature's practical use among the capital nobility and modifications of Tang aesthetic principles"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
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