Yue Zhang 
Lore and Verse [EPUB ebook] 
Poems on History in Early Medieval China

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Lore and Verse is the first English-language book dedicated entirely to studying poems on history (
yongshi shi) in premodern China. Focusing on works by poets from the entire range of early medieval China (220–589), Yue Zhang explores how history was disseminated and interpreted through poetry, as well as how and why certain historical figures were commemorated in poetry. In writing poems on history, poets retrospectively crafted their own identities through their celebration of historical figures, and they prospectively fortified a continuous lineage for transmitting their values and reputation to future generations. This continuous tradition of cultural memory informs a poet’s reception of historical figures, which in turn shapes that tradition through further intertextual connections.
Lore and Verse questions the sweeping generalization of early medieval Chinese poetry as consisting mainly of exuberant images and an ornamental style—an inaccurate characterization repeated by later historians and literary critics—and it provides translations, close readings, and analyses of selected poems on history that will be useful for students, instructors, and general readers interested in premodern Chinese literature and culture.

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Terms and Conventions
The Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. What Are Poems on History in Early Medieval China?
2. Retrospective Memory and Zuo Si’s ‘Poems on History’
3. Prospective Memory and the Reception of Zuo Si’s ‘Yongshi’ in Early Medieval China
4. Tao Yuanming’s Perspectives on Life as Reflected in His Poems on History
5. Cultural Memory and Xie Zhan’s Poem on Zhang Liang
6. Approaches to Lore in the ‘Yongshi’ Section of the
Wen xuan
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Sobre o autor

Yue Zhang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Macau.

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Língua Inglês ● Formato EPUB ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781438486932 ● Tamanho do arquivo 22.3 MB ● Editora State University of New York Press ● Publicado 2022 ● Carregável 24 meses ● Moeda EUR ● ID 7824680 ● Proteção contra cópia Adobe DRM
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