The poetic way of Xie Lingyun : literary expression and the natural world / Ping Wang

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wang, Ping, 1973 March 6- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Xie, Lingyun, 385-433--Criticism and interpretation.

Xie, Lingyun.

Xie, Lingyun, 385-433.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2025]

Summary:

The father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes and structure.

"strongThe father of Chinese landscape poetry in time and place/strong During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618–1279), the emshi/em poetic form embraced new themes and structure. In this meticulously constructed study, Ping Wang traces the social conditions that sparked innovation and marked a significant turn in intellectual history. Using biography, social history, and literary analysis, she demonstrates how the emshi/em form came to dominate classical Chinese poetry, making possible the works of the great poets of later dynasties and influencing literary development in Korea and Japan. Focusing on the life of poet Xie Lingyun (385–433), she traces the exile of aristocratic families in the wild south, which led to their thematic use of “mountains and water” ( emshanshui/em) landscapes over the pastoral ones of earlier writers and artists. Changes in poetic form moved away from genres associated with aggrandizement of the imperial court and, through innovative use of meter and syntax, created a new style of varied, fluid cadence. In Xie’s redesigned five-syllable-line poetry, couplets balanced contradictions that the poet used to capture principles of the natural world. Wang shows how this literary form enabled exiled scholars to make meaning of their tentative existence in the southland, in which the mountains and water imaged the yin-yang principle underlying existence. The post-Han intelligentsia thus used the dilemma of southern exile to craft literature that was revolutionary in both content and form"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Xie Lingyun in place and time

Performing literary friendship

The untrammeled hero

A home in the mountains

Poetic loneliness

The hillside garden

A life in natural and political times

Patterning the dragon

A Buddhist end

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 15, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Wang, Ping, 1973 March 6- Poetic way of Xie Lingyun

ISBN:

9780295753744

0295753099

9780295753096

0295753749

OCLC:

1541775726