Speculative Imagemaking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art : Festschrift in Honor of Reindert L. Falkenburg / edited by Ingrid Falque, Walter S. Melion, Frits Scholten and Michel Weemans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falque, Ingrid, editor.

Melion, Walter S., editor.

Scholten, Frits, editor.

Weemans, Michel, editor.

Series:

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026.

Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History ; 87

Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--History.

Art.

Art Theory.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (740 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Festschrift in Honor of Reindert L. Falkenburg

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book invites readers on a critical journey across the evolving aesthetics and ideology of Chinese literary culture from the first century BCE to the third century CE. Central to our inquiry is a model of becoming—from a self-oriented intellectual labor toward an individually embodied state of “erudition” and its cross-media manifestations. The emergence and proliferation of this model fostered what the book encapsulates as an “enchantment of erudition,” a phenomenal re-orientation of literary culture toward a multi-centered realization of intellectual labor and individual embodiments—an alternative to the institutional regulation of knowledge production in early imperial China.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

List of Tables

Conventions

Introduction

0.1 The Living, the Dead, the Not Yet Living

0.2 Erudition as a Model of Intellectual Labor and an Emblem of Ideology

0.3 Positions in the Field

0.4 Sources and Methodologies

0.5 Outline of Chapters

Part 1 Becoming

1 The Revisionary Invention of Intellectual Model

1.1 On the Eve of a New Literary Culture

1.2 Learning as a Matter in Antiquity

1.3 Broadness as a Value of Learning

1.4 Coda

2 The Accumulated Labor toward Individual Erudition

2.1 The Prolonged Debates on the Core Values of Erudition

2.2 The Syncretic Mode of Studying Classics and Their Hermeneutic Traditions

2.3 The Extension of Self-Oriented Mastery of Knowledge and Texts

2.4 Coda

Part 2 Persisting

3 Rhetoric and Politics of Scholarly Ideology

3.1 Exemplary Figures: the Making of Collective Memory

3.2 Vulgar Scholar: the Inferior Other and His Epistemic Failure

3.3 Hypothetical Discourse: the Master Self and His Winning Voice

3.4 Coda

4 Centrifugal and Centripetal Movements of Cultural Capital

4.1 The Detachment from Official Career

4.2 The Distribution of Intellectual Resources

4.3 Neither the Beginning nor the End: Revisiting Jian’an and Beyond

4.4 Coda

Part 3 Manifesting

5 Textual Display of Erudition

5.1 What Is There beyond an Author?

5.2 Intellectual Labor and Literary Productivity

5.3 The Patterned Exteriority of Cultured Interiority

5.4 The Written Legacy as an Imagined Property

5.5 Coda

6 Cross-Media Performance of Individuality

6.1 Toward a Cross-Media Understanding of Coded System

6.2 The Significance of Paper as a New Medium of Writing

6.3 Beyond Orality-versus-Writing Dichotomy

6.4 Reciprocal Interactions between Orality, Memory, and Literacy

6.5 Coda

Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Falque, Ingrid Falque Speculative Imagemaking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art

ISBN:

9789004742086

OCLC:

1603127247

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004742086 DOI