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Words well put : visions of poetic competence in the Chinese tradition /
"Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in these narratives through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Published by Harvard University Asia Center for Harvard-Yenching Institute,
2006.
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| Colección: | Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;
60. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in these narratives through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which sets forth the conditions - or, more accurately, a representation of the conditions - of a poem's production, performance, and reception. These narratives are not so much faithful historical records as ideal accounts of the operation of poetry. Such stories both fulfill and deny wishes for poetry and for the self; it is these wishes that merit our careful attention." "As traced in Words Well Put, the vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. By the seventh century, calculation, passion, and wit had converged to produce a multivalent concept of competence as a repertoire of competencies to use as the occasion demanded. This book does not provide a stable definition of poetic competence for the entire history of Chinese literature; rather, it tells the story of its development to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-300) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781684170449 1684170443 |