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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the composition of essays capable of producing a perfectly empathic response in a reader. Furthermore, in a demonstration that this was not an unprecedented development in the history of Chinese literature, the authors trace the relationship between musical and poetic aesthetics from the Shijing up to the Qing...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Zong-qi Cai Abstract The author argues that Chinese characters have shaped Chinese poetic art not through their ideographic form but through their monosyllabic sound. Specifically, the pauses in a Chinese poetic line tend to be determined by sound patterns. Since monosyllabic sound is nearly always...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Christopher M. B. Nugent How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity through the Tang is the third in a three-book series that “aims to break down barriers that have long stood in the way of both teaching and learning Chinese poetry” (xxi). While the previous volumes...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
...Xinda Lian Abstract In the most exciting results of linguistic criticism of poetic function in classical Chinese poetry, one sees an ideal integration of microattention to texts and macroinvestigation of grammars of Chinese poetics. The greatest contribution of this close reading of the sinologist...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
...), and it represented a breakthrough in the formal development of Chinese poetic genres. The lines of shi poetry are made up of a “balanced foot” and an “unbalanced foot,” with the balanced foot in the front and the unbalanced foot following behind. Pentasyllabic shi poetry flourished during the Han dynasty, and its...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 347–379.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the puzzle by exploring: (1) the nature of poetic prosody, (2) tonal prosodic patterns in Chinese regulated verse, (3) problems with the Sanskrit origins hypothesis of Chinese tonal prosody, and (4) the pathways of Chinese poetic metricalization from the Six dynasties (222–589) to the Tang dynasty (618–907...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... of his life. Contextualized in both the turbulence of Meiji Japan (1868–1912) and the Chinese poetic and philosophical traditions, this piece offers a comprehensive overview of the thematic and formal features of Sōseki's 1916 kanshi . Perpetually torn between the pursuit of secular success...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... to the theory and practice of the literary translation of Chinese poetic forms. 5. Schlepp, San-ch’ü , ix. 6. Schlepp, San-ch’ü ; Schlepp, “ Sanqu .” For some of Schlepp's own translations that circulated widely in US classrooms, see Birch, Anthology of Chinese Literature , 2:6, 15–16, 18–24...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in the Chinese language, but why is it that prose is formed with lines of four and six syllables? Why is the four-six form favored in essays rather than in poems? And what is the aesthetic principle behind four-six prose? These are the questions that this essay attempts to answer. It is argued that poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... Poetic Theories,” 300 . 38. Ibid., 312. 39. Ibid. 40. Ibid. 41. Yu, “Metaphor and Chinese Poetry,” 205 . She cites both Stephen Owen and Wai-lim Yip as sharing similar views, if developed on different grounds (209) . 42. Yu, “Metaphor and Chinese Poetry,” 207...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
... Liwen Gallagher suggests in commenting on the Chuci 楚辭 (Songs of the Chu) anthology, 14 that such doubled words were created (whether in the case of the Shijing , the Chuci , or any other collection of early Chinese poetry) specifically to satisfy metrical requirements of the poetic forms...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 277–307.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Thomas Donnelly Noel Abstract While Chinese poets of the early medieval period have long been credited with the development of shanshui 山水 (landscape) poetry, the precursors of the prosody they employed merit further scrutiny. This article argues that an ancient poetics of visual augury informed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of author, poetic persona, provenance claim (whether it comes from author, confidant, independent anecdote, or other record), and commentary or interpretive reading. The examples are then shown in their connection to larger, enduring issues in the reading and interpretation of Chinese poetry. 2. Hong...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
... sinological poststructuralism thus far? The first decentering limits itself, recentering on a “Chinese” prejudice: these critical projects of a Chinese correlative cosmology, invoked by Gu, outlined by Owen, Yu, Yip, etc., encouraged seeing in the recently discovered Chinese poem a model of the poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
... be comprehensive. Furthermore, taking this complex system as a whole (leaving aside the tradition of Chinese poetic criticism for the moment) and grasping its inner laws and principles are extremely challenging tasks. Enter the digital humanities with their tools of quantitative analysis to find relations...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
... a Medieval Poetics . 81. Cerquiglini, In Praise of the Variant . 82. Foucault, “What Is an Author?” 83. Owen, Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry , 73 . 84. For “building blocks,” see Boltz, “Composite Nature of Early Chinese Texts” ; for “modularity,” see Ledderose...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2019
... at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lee Wing-tat Chair Professor of Chinese literature at Lingnan University of Hong Kong. His recent publications include two forthcoming monographs in Chinese, titled Grammar and Poetic Vision: An Anatomy of Chinese Poetic Art 語法與詩境:漢詩藝術破析 and Carving Jade...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (2): 258–288.
Published: 01 November 2016
... against the grain of what one associates with Chinese poetic culture in general and poetic subjectivity in particular. More important, the time-honored concepts of zhi and qing are not denigrated in toto, as might be expected. Instead, they are called on to serve the purpose completely out of tune...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with and integration within their disciplines (Levenson and Wright). She finds strong echoes of this dispute in the subsequent reception of James J. Y. Liu's path-breaking books on Chinese poetics and traditional literary criticism of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which in turn leads her into the heart of her...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (2): 496–498.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and Chinese scholarship.” 3 This book was also selected by Zhongguo shixue 中國詩學 (Chinese Poetics) as a featured book for discussion. Among the many excellent contributions in this edited volume, this reviewer would like to highlight two chapters. Zhang's chapter on Zuo Si is related to his recently...
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