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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 545–572.
Published: 01 November 2015
... 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 1–7.
Published: 01 April 2022
... development of their discoveries in some of Kao's later single-authored essays on Tang and Song ci , as well as in multiple essays and monographs by Zong-qi Cai about poetic prosody, syntax, and structure published over the past three decades. By freeing themselves from the bonds of the European-language...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 444–480.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... Syntax is the structure of words, a relationship between words. Omitting the functors (words) that express these relationships is tantamount to not having syntax. Of course, without syntax, the nature of the relationship between scare and sand is unknown. That which is required by the art of parallel...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 47–78.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that down in specific language. Most of the commentators can only be content with their ineffable impressionistic responses, or expressed amazement. The following comment on the syntax, and perhaps also on its impact on the structural organization, of the Nineteen Ancient Style poetry is an interesting...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (1): 148–178.
Published: 01 April 2018
... Reflections on the Rhythms, Syntax, and Structures of Heptasyllabic Regulated Verse ). Xueshu yuekan 學術月刊 ( Academic Monthly ) 49 , no. 2 ( 2017 ): 135 – 53 . Cai, Zong-qi . “ Recent-Style Shi Poetry: Pentasyllabic Regulated Verse ( Wuyan Lüshi ) .” In How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 251–257.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., yet in turn, the subject + predicate and topic+comment syntax provides the basic frameworks for stanzaic and compositional organization, giving birth to three archetypal structures of Chinese poetry. While some traditional Chinese critics intuitively spoke of sentences, sections, and the entire...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 8–46.
Published: 01 April 2022
... their remarks regarding the integration of the Confucian and Daoist awareness of “vital process” in nature into poetic language: Kao and Mei, “Syntax,” 95 . Note that they do this in connection with a discussion of Ernst Fenollosa's theory about the transfer of power as enacted in grammatical transitivity...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 380–418.
Published: 01 November 2015
... constructions is relatively loose. They may have short pauses. See Deng's Hanyu yunlü ci yanjiu . Although these works focus on the model and syntax and their relationships with the rhythms of modern Chinese, I think that the conclusions can also be used to explain the prosodic and syntactic structures...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 163–202.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of rhythm, syntax, and structure.” 28 For this reason, line length plays a crucial role in discussions of the expressive potential of poetry. 29 In the case of sanqu songs, not only was such expressive potential enhanced by the rhythmic flexibility enabled by the so-called padding words...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2021) 8 (1): 203–235.
Published: 01 April 2021
...), the penultimate and ultimate sentences were typically structured as “one half of X” and “one half of Y.” The following song by Guan Hanqing 關漢卿 (fl. 13th century), the last of a series of four on the subject of love ( tiqing 題情), in a spirited rendition by J. I. Crump illustrates this convergence of form, syntax...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2018) 5 (2): 250–275.
Published: 01 November 2018
... more structure behind them. Interpretation and conceptualization of the data still lie with the scholar, but the computational power of generalization brings analysis of data to a new level that may allow us to see poetry from a new perspective. The present article has two main goals. First, I...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 286–323.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in this folk yuefu “displays a composite structure simply because it involves the participation of several performers who each bring to the work a different point of view, a different set of oral formulas or expressions, and probably a different style of performance as well.” For more on the relationship...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 79–104.
Published: 01 April 2022
... 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2020) 7 (2): 491–501.
Published: 01 November 2020
... the book—Durrant, Li, and Schaberg have come up with carefully crafted yet uncontrived renderings that stay closer to the syntax of the original than Legge's. The translators have thankfully exercised restraint concerning footnotes: rather than overburdening the text with philological subtleties drawn...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 324–346.
Published: 01 November 2015
... in English, researchers must be able to separate the weak-strong arrangement of stresses caused by syntax, lexicon, morphology, and so forth (called language-conditioned phenomena) from the weak-strong stress arrangement created by a poet for rhythmic effect (called “verse-specific phenomena” by Mikhail...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 481–514.
Published: 01 November 2015
... patterning but also to narrative mode, line and verse 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...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2022) 9 (1): 131–169.
Published: 01 April 2022
... with Cultural Memory, see Davis, Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture in Early Medieval China ; Swartz, “Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Early Medieval China” ; Nugent, “Structured Gaps” ; Krijgsman, “Traveling Sayings” ; and Khayutina, “Beginning of Cultural Memory Production...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (2): 515–544.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., Guo ting lu , 1038:250 . 44. Ibid., 8–9. 43. Liu D., Lunwen ouji , 6 . 42. Spirit, principle, breath, flavor, structure, regulation, sound, and expression have been analyzed by Yao Yongpu (?–1939). See his Wenxue yanjiu fa , 109–43 . 41. Jia, Tongcheng pai wenlun xuan...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2019) 6 (2): 331–358.
Published: 01 November 2019
... of popular literature. Qing fiction writers were consumers of Ming dynasty novelistic masterpieces as well as various forms of theater and drew thematic and formal inspiration from both traditions. Some consciously capitalized on the popularity of established subjects and narrative structures to reach...
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Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture (2015) 2 (1): 207–248.
Published: 01 April 2015
... in their relationship with one another and hence developing a new visual syntax to be extended to the interior installations in the Qianlong period. Although nearly all the extant illusionistic paintings date no further back than the Qianlong reign, the earliest textual record of them is from 1727. Just...
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