| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
East meets West |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Preface; Body; Chapter 1. Introduction: The Rhapsodic Imagination; Part One. Recitation and Display; Chapter 2. The Origins of the Term "Fu" as a Literary Genre of Recitation; The Puchen . Theory: "Directly Displaying"; Challenging the Puchen Theory; The Recitation Theory; The Liu shi and the Recitation Theory; An Etymological Approach by Jia Jinhua; Another Etymological Approach by Chen Yunzhu; Fu as a Literary Genre of Recitation61; Chapter 3. Into the New Realm of Belles Lettres |
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Part Two. Lyricism and FormChapter 4. The Assimilation and Dissimilation of Fu and Shi Poetry up to the Tang Dynasty; The Pre-Qin Period and Han Dynasty; "Fu Is an Outflow of the Ancient Songs": Canonizing a Genre Through Assimilation; "To Recite without Singing Is Called Fu": Establishing Self-Identity through Dissimilation; The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties; Shi and Fu Pieces with the Same Title; Lyricization of the Fu in the Southern Dynasties; The "Fu-icization" of Verse and the Rise of the Fu de ti; Conclusion |
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Chapter 5. Xu Wei's Early Modern Rhapsodies: Catalogue and Critique, Lyricism and LogicDreams of Good Taste: "What Others Ignore, I Alone Study in Detail"; The Garden of Metaphors: Xu Wei's "Rhapsody on (Poems about) Peonies"; Evoking the Self as Aesthetic Object: Evolution of the Yongwu Mode; Influence; Conclusion; Part Three. Philosophy and Dialogue; Chapter 6. The Metaphysical Rhapsody of the Six Dynasties; The Rise of the Metaphysical Rhapsody: In Search of Nonbeing; The Buddhist Conquest of the Metaphysical Rhapsody; Coda |
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Chapter 7. Argumentation and Generic Change in the Mid-Tang FuLi Guan's "Ku yu fu"; The Interplay of Modes: Readings of "Ku yu fu"; Textual Affinities; Further Lexical Considerations; Rhyme; Reconsidering the Fu/Shelun Relationship; Conclusions; Part Four. Critique and Protest; Chapter 8. The Hidden Message of Zhang Heng's "Contemplating the Mystery"; The Imaginary Journey in the "Contemplating the Mystery"; Comparing the Five Imaginary Journey Poems; The Journeys to the Four Cardinal Points; Conclusions |
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Chapter 9. A New Discourse on "Lament for the South" in the Fu of the Ming-Qing Transition1The Collective Understanding of "Lament for the South"; The Yu Xin Controversy; "What Soil Remains Untainted?"; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The first volume in English to examine the fu, one of the major genres of Chinese literature, from its origins up to the late imperial era |
| Analysis |
Chinese poetry |
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imperial China |
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late imperial Chinese literature |
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medieval Chinese literature |
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rhapsody |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 22, 2019) |
| Subject |
Chinese poetry -- History and criticism
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Fu -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese.
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Chinese poetry
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Fu
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Williams, Nicholas Morrow, editor
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| ISBN |
9781641893336 |
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1641893338 |
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