The Vitality of the Lyric Voice: Shih Poetry from the Late Han to the T'ang

Published by Princeton University Press 1987

The Vitality of the Lyric Voice

Shih Poetry from the Late Han to the T'ang

Edited by: Shuen-fu Lin and Stephen Owen

Volume 486 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400858385

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This volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in live-character meter and culminated in the T'ang, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry.

Originally published in 1987.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Foreword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
I. Theoretical Background
Profound Learning, Personal Knowledge, and Poetic Vision Tu Wei-ming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and Its Relation to Chinese Cosmology François Cheng and Stephen Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
The Paradox of Poetics and the Poetics of Paradox James J. Y. Liu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
The Self's Perfect Mirror: Poetry as Autobiography Stephen Owen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
II. Concepts and Contexts
Description of Landscape in Early Six Dynasties Poetry Kang-i Sun Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
The Decline and Revival of Feng-ku (Wind and Bone): On the Changing Poetic Styles from the Chien-an Era through the High T'ang Period Lin Wen-yüeh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
Verses from on High: The Ascent of T'ai Shan Paul W. Kroll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry Ching-hsien Wang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
III. Forms and Genres
The Development of Han and Wei Yueh-fu as a High Literary Genre Hans Η. Frankel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
The Legacy of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Yiiehju Tradition and Its Further Development in T'ang Poetry Zhou Zhenfu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
The Nature of the Quatrain from the Late Han to the High T'ang Shuen-fu Lin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
The Aesthetics of Regulated Verse Yu-kung Kao Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	387
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
Studies on China Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409

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