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The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry
Book Description Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poetry. This study adopts a double approach to the poetry composed between the end of the first century b.c.e. and the third century c.e. First, it examines extant material from this period synchronically, as if it were not historically arranged, with some poems attached to authors and some not. By setting aside putative differences of author and genre, Stephen Owen argues, we can see that this was "one poetry," created from a shared poetic repertoire and compositional practices. Second, it considers how the scholars of the late fifth and early sixth centuries selected this material and reshaped it to produce the standard account of classical poetry. As Owen shows, early poetry comes to us through reproduction--reproduction by those who knew the poem and transmitted it, by musicians who performed it, and by scribes and anthologists--all of whom changed texts to suit their needs. -
Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
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中国“中世纪”的终结
本书是宇文所安唐代文学“四部曲”之三,但去初、盛唐诗的写作已有15年。鉴于中唐文学的复杂性和特殊性,本书并不像前两部一样是完整的专著,是“诗歌史”,而是由七篇论文组成。这些论文具有文学史性质,但本身并不构成一部文学史;而由于中唐文学在风格、主题及处理的范式上远较初、盛唐复杂,且诗歌、传奇及非虚构性的散文享有共通的旨趣,因此更不适宜称为“中唐诗史”。但这些论文却透过不同类型的文本和文体来探讨一系列相互关联的问题,这些具体的问题就其性质而言与文化史或社会史等更大的领域息息相关,从而构成了中唐“文学文化”的一副气质独具的概貌。 简言之,作者认为中唐是中国的一个历史分水岭,某种程度上是一种“现代”的开端。他这样解释:“中唐是中国文学中一个独一无二的时刻,又是一个新开端。自宋以降所滋生出来的诸多现象,都是在中唐崭露头角的。在许多方面,中唐作家在精神志趣上接近两百年后的宋代大思想家,而不是仅数十年前的盛唐诗人。” 由此我们可以更好地理解为何中唐意味着“中世纪的终结”。 -
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
China has one of the longest continuous literary traditions in the world. From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing, both as an instrument of the state and as a medium for culture outside the state. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not only poetry, drama, and fiction, but also historical writing and other prose forms. Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the History frequently challenges current scholarship, from taking recent archeological discoveries into consideration to understanding Chinese modernity not as a sudden rupture with the past but as part of a longer process. The History offers both an integrated narrative, situating literature in its larger cultural context, and an overview of the key developments of the past millennia accessible to non-specialist readers as well as scholars and students of Chinese. Contents Volume I: Introduction; 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern; 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25–317) David Knechtges; 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317–649) Xiaofei Tian; 4. The Cultural Tang (650–1020) Stephen Owen; 5. The Northern Song (1020–1126) Ronald Egan; 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin; 7. Literature from the Late Jin to the Early Ming: ca. 1230–ca. 1375 Stephen H. West; Bibliography; Glossary; Index; Volume II: Introduction; 1. Literature of the Early Ming to Mid-Ming (1375–1572) Kang-i Sun Chang; 2. The literary culture of the Late Ming (1573–1644) Tina Lu; 3. Early Qing to 1723 Wai-yee Li; 4. The Literati Era and its demise (1723–1840) Shang Wei; 5. Prosimetric and verse narrative Wilt L. Idema; 6. Chinese literature from 1841 to 1937 David Der-wei Wang, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx; 7. Chinese literature from 1937 to the present Michelle Yeh, Jing Tsu and Michel Hockx; Bibliography; Glossary; Index. -
韩愈和孟郊的诗歌
本书包括:复古与唐诗、孟郊早期的诗歌、韩愈早年的生活和诗歌创作、孟郊的失意诗及后期诗歌创作、韩愈:叙事体的发展、韩愈的贬谪生活:804年~806年等14章。 -
晚唐
宇文所安唐代文学研究“四部曲”的最后一部。本书对晚唐诗的风格、形式和意蕴的变化有独到的阐释,对李贺、杜牧、李商隐和温庭筠的诗歌有不同于前人的精审解读。而且基于在中唐余韵影响下晚唐独特的社会文化状况和历史地位,作者在本书中有不同于前三部的对文学史的新叙述,如更加注意文本是如何保存下来和如何在当时流传的,诗的写作与在当代的流传之间的关系如何,还有当时的诗歌与盛唐诗歌之间、与宋代诗歌之间有怎样的关联等等。