The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-ninth Century 827-860 - Brossura

Owen, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0674033280 ISBN 13: 9780674033283

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Asia Center, 2009

Riassunto

The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and the traces of the past had a singular aura.

In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang. Focusing in particular on Du Mu, Li Shangyin, and Wen Tingyun, he analyzes the redirection of poetry that followed the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. The Late Tang, Owen argues, forces us to change our very notion of the history of poetry. Poets had always drawn on past poetry, but in the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium; it was becoming a repertoire of available choices--styles, genres, the voices of past poets. It was this repertoire that would endure.

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Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860)

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Asia Center
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0674033280
• ISBN 13: 9780674033283
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 596