| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 81 |
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Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 81.
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| Contents |
Introduction. A critic in the borderlands ; From margin to footnote ; The formation of a canon ; Structure of the book ; Implications -- 1. Poems and poems. Talking with a madman ; A new classic : the Songs of Chu ; The Shi Ting ; Poems on the stone ; Genre trouble ; Supplementing and rewriting ; Rhyme as a reason ; Three hundred more -- 2. Re-collections. Early anthologies : plans and principles ; Collecting the classics ; The poetics of completism ; Found poetry : the stone drums ; Verse inscribed ; A market for antiquity ; Boundaries restored ; Recalling the canon : the Classic inspires anthologies -- 3. In the image of the Classic. Ritual models ; Autocommentary : prefaces ; Commentary where it counted ; Rewriting the canon : Song dynasty ritual songs ; New doubts in the Song -- 4. Circulation in the troposphere. Defining and redefining the tropes ; Interpreting creation ; Borrowing back ; Zhu Xi : engaging with two cannons ; Joining fortes : tropes in combination ; Speaking with Master Qu : Zhu Xi and the Songs of Chu ; Counterfactual canons : extending the principles ; Recombination -- 5. Inventious discovery. The Lu school, lost and found ; The mind's eye : new readings in the Ming ; Reinvented traditions ; Pernicious poems? ; The breakdown of song and learning ; Better writing though forgery ; Duplicitous standards : the manipulation of the Lu Poems ; Hidden legacies ; Debunking and rethinking -- Conclusion -- Appendixes. I : The Han and Mao School readings of "Heaven Made" ; II : Early witnesses to Shao Yong's couplet ; III : The authenticity of Shizhun and Shiyi ; IV : Tang to Ming collections with titles alluding to the Poetry Classic |
| Summary |
"At once a revered canon associated with Confucius and the earliest anthology of poetry, the Book of Poems holds a unique place in Chinese literary history. Since early imperial times it served as an ideal of literary perfection, as it provided a basis for defining shi poetry, the most esteemed genre of elite composition. In imperial China, however, literary criticism and classical learning represented distinct fields of inquiry that differed in status, with classical learning considered more serious and prestigious. Literary critics thus highlighted connections between the Book of Poems and later verse, while classical scholars obscured the origins of their ideas in literary theory. This book explores the mutual influence of literary and classicizing approaches, which frequently and fruitfully borrowed from one another. Drawing on a wide range of sources including commentaries, anthologies, colophons, and inscriptions, Bruce Rusk chronicles how scholars borrowed from critics without attribution and even resorted to forgery to make appealing new ideas look old. By unraveling the relationships through which classical and literary scholarship on the Book of Poems co-evolved from the Han dynasty through the Qing, this study shows that the ancient classic was the catalyst for intellectual innovation and literary invention."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Shi jing. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81033127
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Shi jing fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Kinesisk poesi -- historia.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781684170654 |
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1684170656 |
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