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The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Stephen Owen
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Hardcover. Adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the 1st Century BC and the 3rd Century AD. This book examines extant material from this period synchronically with some poems attached to authors and some not. It argues that this was 'one poetry,' created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 370 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 165 x 30. Weight in Grams: 684.
Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilised the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the 1st Century B.C and the 3rd Century A.D. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors ... Read more
Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilised the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the 1st Century B.C and the 3rd Century A.D. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
370
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674021365
SKU
V9780674021365
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About Stephen Owen
Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University.
Reviews for The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Arguably the most erudite and prolific scholar/translator of English language studies of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, Owen has published everything from introductory surveys to highly specialized technical studies of classical Chinese verse. The present work
six chapters plus a substantial introduction and seven useful appendixes
presents a detailed and fairly comprehensive treatment of how the standard corpus of classical Chinese ... Read more
six chapters plus a substantial introduction and seven useful appendixes
presents a detailed and fairly comprehensive treatment of how the standard corpus of classical Chinese ... Read more