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- The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies
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Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it.
The Matrix of Lyric Transformation enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the Yüeh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.
Table of Contents
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- Half Title Page
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- pp. v-vi
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Half-Title Page
- p. xi
- List of Abbreviations
- p. xii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 5. Juan Chi: The Formation of the Symbolic Mode
- pp. 147-188
- Bibliography
- pp. 233-252
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472901449
Related ISBN(s)
9780472038053, 9780472127498, 9780892641116
MARC Record
OCLC
1184508292
Launched on MUSE
2020-09-29
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND