Search Results for parallelism

...Shengli Feng; Ash Henson Abstract The term pianwen 駢文 (parallel prose) comes from the main characteristic of the genre, while its other name—literally, “four-six prose” in Chinese—comes from its form. Theoretically, the aesthetic of the four-six configuration for Chinese writers is rooted...

... songs hybridize traditional literary elements with the up-and-coming form of sanqu . This article examines how Zhang embodied the aesthetics of classical poetry in the format of sanqu through a detailed examination of meter, parallel lines, and rhyme. Also, to demonstrate that the synthetic style...

...Xinda Lian Abstract The secret of the “cumulative structure,” one of Zhuangzi's favorite rhetorical devices, is “adding.” To add is not to repeat but to arrange meanings of different shapes in various incremental parallel structures. This effective tool is used in his chapter titled “The Great...

... that the rhetoric of involution deserves closer investigation, and focus particular attention on involution's origins in the field of aesthetics and the rise of involutionary parallelism in the Ming-Qing examination essay. It is here that the dynamics of cultural capital that dominate in the Ming and Qing...

.... The increased use and popularity of shenglü primers, especially in primary education from the Song forward, is explored in section 2. The third section illustrates how shenglü primers emphasized an integration of yun (rhyme) and dui (paired phrasing or parallelism). While tracing the rise of shiyun shu (poetic...

... stage of its development, poets focused primarily on the balance in the foot of each line and the balance within poetic lines. Later they focused increasingly on balance in the combination of monosyllabic words and in the parallel arrangement of lines in couplets. The fact that pentasyllabic shi poetry...

..., pitch, tonality, music, memory, and recitation existed in conceptual parallel to systems of visual knowledge of heavenly bodies, light, color, and the written record. Masters of the former set of skills were frequently blind and entrusted with a distinct set of ritual and advisory functions, including...

... independently of direct human manipulation, and they situated bronzes within frameworks of material vitalism that parallel many aspects of the “new materialism” associated with contemporary theorists like Karen Barad and Jane Bennett. This article interprets both of these understandings as containment...

... and early Six Dynasties period; parallel patterning in late Six Dynasties descriptive and discursive prose; and the parallel-repetitive patterning found in Ming-Qing examination essays. Applying this proposed patterning-based codification, we now examine eight famous works of extratextually...

...Figure 6. Automatic highlighting of differences between parallels (visualization from Chinese Text Project, ctext.org/text.pl?node=3898&if=en&show=parallel ) ...

..., with line-by-line translation below. Each speech employs a number of distinct euphonic and phonorhetorical patterns, such as regular meter (often tetrasyllabic), perfect rhyme, he yun 合韻 (consonance; i.e., homoeoteleuton), repetition and parallelism, phrase-internal rhyming and cross-rhyming...

..., the 2 + 3 rhythm of pentasyllabic shi poetry allows for an unprecedented grammatical flexibility within a line and a smooth flow from one line to the next. In addition, this new rhythm facilitates greater use of parallel syntax between two lines in a couplet and lays the ground for a tonal regulation...

... Qu Yuan Epic,” the narrative of a composite Qu Yuan 屈原 (trad. 340–278 BCE) persona that is distributed across multiple prose and poetic texts within and beyond the Chuci 楚辭. Based on his close and original analysis of the Lisao as a discontinuous and nonlinear sum total of parallel discourses...

... appropriately be parallel in meaning to the character lun 淪, meaning ruined, reduced, or lost, found in the following sentence. As such, I translate this word in its sense in the compound aiai 藹藹, which means dark or obscure. 23. The term “purple palace” ( zigong 紫宮), while hinting at Daoist...

... parallelism,” in which “a couplet whose two lines each have two grammatical structures, and the structures pair off two by two” (54). Then, in a couplet taken from the second poem in the same series, we have a different kind of poetic configuration, more commonly seen than the ambiguous parallelism above...

... into one hundred juan . 2 In his explicitly polemical selections, Yao Xuan excluded both regulated poetry and parallel prose—two of the most common forms of Tang literature. He also centered his selections on a narrow group of writers from the mid-Tang era, and the anthology later became known...

... that textual delicacy and prosodic regulations are enemies of good writing because they do not help—and may even hurt—good governance. As many have pointed out, what was at stake in the mid-eleventh-century Guwen protest was the requirement of using parallel prose in the civil service examinations. 19...