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...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...

... endowed with meaning, sound patterns tend to be semantic groupings as well. These groupings of meaning, in turn, determine syntax and, by extension, the organization of an entire poem. Given the semantic denseness of Chinese poetry, this structure is crucial to the overall meaning of a poem, to how we...

...Jeffrey Moser Abstract This article considers the emotional status of grave goods in medieval China. Its purpose is twofold. First, the author investigates the conceptual structures available for interpreting the emotional processes involved in medieval burials. He argues that it is possible...

...Jeffrey R. Tharsen Abstract Research methods employing large-scale databases of digital texts and digital lexica can assist in the detection of the ways phonetic patterns worked in concert with semantic and syntactic structures in premodern Chinese narrative texts. When applied to the speeches...

... the dynamic between the examinations and fiction writing elevated in the metafictional structure of the novel, this study considers Tang Ao a fictional representative of many scholars in late imperial China, whose experience with the examinations was not merely a cause of intense frustration but also...

... verse. The increased use of 2–2–1 prosodic structure of the pentasyllabic lines of this period indicates that the fourth syllable in the line had become a defining caesural point. Furthermore, the emergence of this new regulation will be shown in relation to the growing need for semantic and aesthetic...

..., philosophical, and intellectual dimensions of the poems, this study aims to contribute to furthering the understanding of the structural and thematic coherence of the sequence as a whole. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Gong Zizhen Poems of 1839 esoteric Buddhism Beijing pluralism...

... subject's distributed textual body. A total of 10,869 poems exchanged between 2,413 individuals are cataloged to seek the structure of the collectively imagined literary relations of the time. This catalog is subjected to social-network analysis to reveal patterns and peculiarities in the extant corpus...

.... By identifying a number of Ming dynasty qu anthologies that prominently feature courtly sanqu songs, this article examines how these anthologies, through their organizational structure, draw the reader's attention to courtly sanqu songs. Ming anthologies also act as the major source for tracing the textual...

... himself as contributing to this decentering, displacing the value-laden binary opposition central to structuralism. But as Derrida explained, the “first decentering limits itself” by “recenter[ing] itself upon” what he calls “the ‘ Chinese ’ prejudice: all the philosophical projects of a universal script...

... into how Han pentasyllabic poets reinvented vocabulary, syntax, rhythms, and structure and thereby scaled new heights of “brevity in form and breadth in meaning.” [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 computational poetics classical...

... in front of us a game changer. Cai's innovative investigation of the topic + comment structure also provides him a new angle to examine the function played by its spatiotemporal-logical counterpart, the subject + predicate structure. He points out that, in the first place, a subject + predicate...

.... Its title, “Listening outside the Curtain,” is the title of a song tune, the musical prosody of which shapes the formal structure of the lyric. The author of the piece, Liu Yong 柳永 (ca. 987–ca. 1053), a member of the Northern Song literati well known for his morally dubious experiences on both sides...

... prose has the skeleton of four-six prosody. Since it is a skeleton, it also has a spine, ribs, femurs, and humeri. What are the main structures of four-six sentences? What are their secondary structures? We will start with Qi Gong's analysis of various lines of parallel prose by Wang Bo 王勃 (649?–676...

... syllable in five-syllable poems and after the fourth syllable in seven-syllable poems. As a result, “two-three” and “four-three” sentence structures serve as a formal foundation for the creation of rhythm in regulated verse. However, in sanqu , the lengths of lines are not identical, and while some...

... the grouping of the texts. 1. Firth, Synopsis of Linguistic Theory , 11 . 2. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations , 2–3 . 3. Harris, Distributional Structure . 4. Osgood, Suci, and Tannenbaum, Measurement of Meaning , 6–7 . 5. Mikolov et al., “Distributed...

... , that is, in the temporal structure of ritual: It is generally accepted that the poetic form has the mnemotechnical aim of capturing the unifying knowledge in a manner that will preserve it. Also familiar is the fact that this knowledge is customarily performed through multimedia staging in which the linguistic text...

... structure, and so forth, with detailed discussion to follow. Shi zhong you wen 詩中有文 (prose within poem) is not a typical formulation in the field of Du Fu studies; indeed, when the concept was first introduced by scholars of the Song period 宋 (960–1279), it was not associated with Du Fu...

... and was widespread throughout the north long before the later cultural reforms under Emperor Xiaowen. The writing of Buddhist epigraphy, whether in commemoration of the building of statues, temples, grottoes, or other religious artifacts, had a long history in the north. The tropes, techniques, and structures...

...) category, the earliest extant effort to create a separate bibliographic division specifically for works of history. 6 The Suishu treatise resolves these issues of historiographic disorderliness by arranging its contents into descriptive subcategories, many of which use organizational structure...