Reading Du Fu : nine views / edited by Xiaofei Tian.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tian, Xiaofei, 1971- editor.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Du, Fu, 712-770--Criticism and interpretation.

Du, Fu.

Poets, Chinese--Tang dynasty, 618-907.

Poets, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource 199 pages)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu's poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary reception of Du Fu; poetry and visual art; and tradition and modernity.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: Home, Locale, Empire

1. Foundings of Home

2. Thinking through Poetry

3. History Channels

4. Ironic Empires

Section II: Poetry and Buddhism

5. Refuges and Refugees

6. Feeding the Phoenix

Section III: Reception and Re-creation

7. Sources of Difficulty

8. Ming-Qing Paintings Inscribed with Du Fu's Poetic Lines

9. Six Modernist Poets in Search of Du Fu

Works Cited

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2021).

ISBN:

9789882209916

9882209912

OCLC:

1228505099