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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
...Mariana Zorkina Abstract This article focuses on computational analysis of Tang dynasty “poems on things” ( yongwu shi 詠物詩) and some of the most common objects described in them. Modern technology offers many possibilities for new approaches to the study of poetic language, and this article...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2023) 10 (1): 57–80.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... The city was a transregional literary center and a favored destination of sojourning poets and merchants, particularly those from Huizhou, creating opportunities for women to attain literary fame. Central to this discussion is a poetic language about sites and spaces that became current in Yangzhou during...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... development was driven forward by the exploration of the musical and rhythmic properties of the Chinese language in poetic form. Given that Chinese classical poetry was born from music, the sound and rhythm of poetry are of great importance. Chinese is a monosyllabic language in which each graph has just one...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... brand is the laying bare—in plain analytical language—of the mechanism of Chinese poetics, long grudgingly guarded as some ineffable ( zhike yihui buke yanchuan 只可意會不可言傳) secret. In fact, this was precisely the kind of question posed by the pioneers in their early experimentation with close reading...
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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 (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... both the source language and culture and the target language and culture to their fullest in conveying a Yuan period poem in modern English. By applying these theories through the lens of accentuating the changes in language register—so indicative of the sanqu 's poetic style—we were able to make...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 258–285.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., “Communication in Poetry” ; Tsur, Toward a Theory . 32. Blust, “Phonestheme ŋ -.” 33. Tsur, Toward a Theory ; Stockwell, Cognitive Poetics . 34. Kao and Mei, “Tu Fu's ‘Autumn Meditations.’” 35. Ibid., 9. 36. Verhagen, “Language, Culture, Nature.” 37. Legge...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 313–338.
Published: 01 November 2020
...Li E Abstract The Southern Song poet Yang Wanli is known for his Chengzhai style, prominent features of which include humorous language, easy syntax, and nature as the source of inspiration. This article examines two characteristics of Yang's nature poems that contribute to the development of his...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the place and time of the wood cutting, as well as the work to be completed by each individual, Du Fu employs the most typical sort of vernacular language, but instills it none the less with a poetic flair. For instance, “Song chong biaozhi Wang Ping pingshishi nanhai” 送重表侄王砯評事使南海 (Sending Off My Maternal...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that includes China. His first chapter thus offers, in terms that strive to be concrete and empirically verifiable, an extended description not of Chinese poetry but of “the Chinese language as a medium of poetic expression, as compared with English .” 9 For all of his confidence in the benefits...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 481–485.
Published: 01 November 2020
... difficult to teach to undergraduates, especially in translation. We can tell them about the historical depth of his allusions and use of poetic language, but the challenges they face in understanding his charms through translated poems are greater than those faced when reading a Wang Wei quatrain (at least...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... engenders a dynamic interplay of all its elements, from which poetic vision emerges. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Chinese poetic language monosyllabic Chinese characters Chinese prosody prosodic and thematic rhythm syntax and structure What's unique about Chinese poetic...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 324–346.
Published: 01 November 2015
... the linguistic features of the poetic language from the same period. The last and most technical issue with previous studies of this subject is the method of comparison used to analyze the tonal contrast data. Comparing the tonal contrast data from poetry to the tonal contrast data from baseline texts...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 105–130.
Published: 01 April 2022
... “semiotic” language (fluid, even chaotic) exemplified in modernist avant-garde poetics, represented by the works of canonical male writers and poets such as Stéphane Mallarmé, James Joyce, and Antonin Artaud. 25 Given its orientation, French feminist theory had little theoretical or critical resonance...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2016) 3 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 April 2016
...) that produced those writings. 4 In short, the Chinese lyric subject is the unnamed entity imagined as living in and responding to the world and consequently, unavoidably, expressing itself in poetry. This subject is accessible and interpretable only inasmuch as it is bodied forth in poetic language...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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 language thus removed...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 411–469.
Published: 01 November 2020
... wuyan lüshi zhangfa yanjiu” 杜甫五言律詩章法研究 ( A Study of the Compositional Art of Du Fu's Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse ). Changjiang daxue xuebao 長江大學學報 ( Journal of Yangtzu University ) 7 ( 2014 ): 31 – 33 . Yearley, Lee H. “ Poetic Language: Zhuāngzǐ and Dù Fǔ's Confucian Ideals .” In Ethics...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2015
... of the poetic language that find no equivalents in visual media. In her article on the production of birthday albums during the mid-Qing period (1450–1550), Lihong Liu offers a brief review of the existing discourse on the word-image relationship in China studies to chart the trajectory of the scholarly...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2017) 4 (2): 420–438.
Published: 01 November 2017
... the particular cases of disputed provenance and meaning discussed above to enduring larger issues in the study of Chinese poetry. We must first mention, if only briefly, the well-known universalizing tendency of Chinese poetic language seen, for example, in the general avoidance of pronouns, proper names...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (1): 169–204.
Published: 01 April 2019
... otherwise. All the features described above were familiar poetic language from the boudoir plaint genre. The beautiful women in the albums, cloistered in their boudoirs or other isolated spaces, brooding over and pining for the absent lover, visually depicted such scenarios in the poetic tradition...
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