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Testing the Literary : Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China /
"The civil service examination essay-known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure-was the most widely read and written literary genre in early modern China (1450-1850). As the primary mode of expression in which educated individuals w...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Testing the Literary : |b Prose and the Aesthetic in Early Modern China / |c Alexander Des Forges. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Voice : an ideology of technique -- Representative style -- Measures and matches -- The examined subject -- Anonymity and identity. | |
| 520 | |a "The civil service examination essay-known as shiwen (modern or contemporary prose) or bagu wen (eight-legged essay) for its complex structure-was the most widely read and written literary genre in early modern China (1450-1850). As the primary mode of expression in which educated individuals were schooled, shiwen epitomized the literary enterprise even beyond the walls of the examination compound. But shiwen suffered condemnation in the shift in discourse on literary writing that followed the fall of the Ming dynasty, and were thoroughly rejected in the May Fourth iconoclasm of the early twentieth century. Challenging conventional disregard for the genre, Alexander Des Forges reads the examination essay from a literary perspective, showing how shiwen redefined prose aesthetics and transformed the work of writing. A new approach to subjectivity took shape: the question "who is speaking?" resonated through the essays' involuted prose style, foregrounding issues of agency and control. At the same time, the anonymity of the bureaucratic evaluation process highlighted originality as a literary value. Finally, an emphasis on questions of form marked the aesthetic as a key arena for contestation of authority as candidates, examiners, and critics joined to form a dominant social class of literary producers"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Aesthetics in literature |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese prose literature |y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 |x History and criticism |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese prose literature |y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 |x History and criticism |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese essays |y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 |x History and criticism |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese essays |y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 |x History and criticism |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese examination essays |x History and criticism |2 nli | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Qing Dynasty (China) |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01696773 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese prose literature |x Ming dynasty. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01906872 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese prose literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00857709 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese examination essays. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00857360 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese essays |x Ming dynasty. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01906856 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Chinese essays. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00857348 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Aesthetics in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00798734 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Esthetique dans la litterature. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Prose chinoise |y 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) |x Histoire et critique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Essais chinois |y 1644-1912 (Dynastie des Qing) |x Histoire et critique. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese prose literature |y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese prose literature |y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese essays |y Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese essays |y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 |x History and criticism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chinese examination essays |x History and criticism. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Criticism, interpretation, etc. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2023 Annual Backfile - Unpurchased | ||