The Poetics Of Repetition In English And Chinese Lyric Poetry
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| Author | : Cecile Chu-chin Sun |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2011-01-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0226780228 |
For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate literatures. In this pioneering book, Cecile Chu-chin Sun establishes repetition as the ideal perspective from which to compare the poetry and poetics from these two traditions. Sun contends that repetition is at the heart of all that defines the lyric as a unique art form and, by closely examining its use in Chinese and Western poetry, she demonstrates howone can identify important points of convergence and divergence. Through a representative sampling of poems from both traditions, she illustrates how the irreducible generic nature of the lyric transcends linguistic and cultural barriers but also reveals the fundamental distinctions between the traditions. Most crucially, she dissects the two radically different conceptualizations of reality—mimesis and xing—that serve as underlying principles for the poetic practices of each tradition. Skillfully integrating theory and practice, The Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetryprovides a much-needed model for future study of Chinese and English poetry as well as lucid, succinct interpretations of individual poems.
| Author | : Cecile Chu-chin Sun |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2011-01-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0226780201 |
In this pioneering book, Cecile Chu-chin Sun establishes a sound and effective comparative methodology by using a multifaceted understanding of the concept of repetitionùnot merely a recurrence of words and imagesùas a key perspective from which to compare the poetry and poetics from these two traditions. --
| Author | : Alfred Fisher |
| Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 2017-05-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781548818067 |
For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate literatures. In this pioneering book, Cecile Chu-chin Sun establishes repetition as the ideal perspective from which to compare the poetry and poetics from these two traditions
| Author | : Michael Fuller |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 496 |
| Release | : 2020-10-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1684175836 |
"This innovative textbook for learning classical Chinese poetry moves beyond the traditional anthology of poems translated into English and instead brings readers—including those with no knowledge of Chinese—as close as possible to the texture of the poems in their original language. The first two chapters introduce the features of classical Chinese that are important for poetry and then survey the formal and rhetorical conventions of classical poetry. The core chapters present the major poets and poems of the Chinese poetic tradition from earliest times to the lyrics of the Song Dynasty (960–1279).Each chapter begins with an overview of the historical context for the poetry of a particular period and provides a brief biography for each poet. Each of the poems appears in the original Chinese with a word-by-word translation, followed by Michael A. Fuller’s unadorned translation, and a more polished version by modern translators. A question-based study guide highlights the important issues in reading and understanding each particular text.Designed for classroom use and for self-study, the textbook’s goal is to help the reader appreciate both the distinctive voices of the major writers in the Chinese poetic tradition and the grand contours of the development of that tradition."
| Author | : Fatemeh Keshavarz |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2014-12-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0748696938 |
This imaginative and accessible study of the lyrical, humorous, social and educational aspects of classical Persian poetry focuses on the works of the master medieval poet Sa'di of Shiraz (d. 1291), one of the funniest, most influential and lyrical figures in classical Persian poetry. Sa'di, a prominent ethicist and a devout teacher of virtues, stands out for his worldliness, his practical teachings, and his love for living a wholesome life, as well as for his signature elegance and artistry that has compelled critics to call his lyrics perfectly polished diamonds.In a language deliberately free of technical jargon, Keshavarz argues for the versatility of Sa'di's poetic voice and portrays his notion of love as open to multiple perspectives including homoerotic aesthetics. She brings to life the worldly wisdom that kept the lyrical, adventurous, and ethical legacy of Sa'di fresh and effective through the passage of time.
| Author | : Susan M. Felch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 307 |
| Release | : 2016-09-12 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1107097843 |
Each essay in this Companion examines literary texts and a particular religious tradition to better understand both literature and religion.
| Author | : Ming Dong Gu |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2014-11-07 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1438455119 |
Explores the challenges of translating Chinese works for Western readers, particularly premodern texts. This book explores the challenges of translating Chinese works, particularly premodern ones, for a contemporary Western readership. Reacting against the cultural turn in translation studies, contributors return to the origin of translation studies: translation practice. By returning to the time-honored basics of linguistics and hermeneutics, the book inquires into translation practice from the perspective of reading and reading theory. Essays in the first section of the work discuss the nature, function, rationale, criteria, and historical and conceptual values of translation. The second section focuses on the art and craft of translation, offering practical techniques and tips. Finally, the third section conducts critical assessments of translation policy and practice as well as formal and aesthetic issues. Throughout, contributors explore how a translation from the Chinese can read like a text in the Western readers own language. Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Narrative System, also published by SUNY Press. Rainer Schulte is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of Geography of Translation and Interpretation: Traveling Between Languages.
| Author | : Martin Svensson Ekström |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 630 |
| Release | : 2024-03-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1438495404 |
The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited by Confucius himself. Despite their enormous importance for Confucianism and Chinese civilization, the 305 odes have for millennia also puzzled readers. Why did the Sage include in the Canon apparently lewd poems about women promising men to "hitch up" their skirts and "wade the river," and men "tossing and turning in bed" yearning for young women? What did the innumerable representations of plants, beasts, and birds, and of various climactic and astronomical phenomena, signify beyond their immediate function as natural descriptions? One such puzzled reader was Mao Heng, a learned Confucian employed at a minor court in the mid-second century BCE. The object of this study is the Commentary that Mao composed on the Odes, and in particular the hermeneutic tool—the xing—that he invented to explain the figurality and tropes at play in them. Mao's "xingish" interpretation of the Odes is both genuinely hermeneutic, in that it explains the rhetorical organization of these poems, and thoroughly ideological, since it allows Mao to transform them into Confucian dogma. The book also argues that the xing, content, function, and cultural importance, is comparable to the Aristotelian concept of metaphor (metaphora), and that the xing, the Odes, and the practice of shi (Chinese "poetry") demand an intercultural, "comparative" reading for a more nuanced understanding.
| Author | : Casey Schoenberger |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2024-06-14 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198886217 |
This innovative study introduces the rhythms, melodies, language, and organization of traditional Chinese poetry and vocal arts. Using insights from cognitive neuroscience, digital humanities, musicology, and linguistics, Casey Schoenberger offers new perspectives on a wide range of issues in the field.
| Author | : Mark Byron |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-11-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108499015 |
Essays on recent developments in Pound scholarship and research, including newly available primary sources and methodological advances in cognate fields.
