Reading Tao Yuanming

Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684174799

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Reading Tao Yuanming by Wendy Swartz Pdf

Tao Yuanming (365?–427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China’s greatest writers. Over the centuries, portrayals of his life—some focusing on his eccentricity, others on his exemplary virtue—have elevated him to iconic status. This study of the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself and of particular readings of his works sheds light on the transformation of literature and culture in premodern China. It focuses on readers’ interpretive negotiations with Tao’s works and on changes in hermeneutical practices, critical vocabulary, and cultural demands, as well as the intervention of interested and influential readers, in order to trace the construction of Tao Yuanming. Driven by a dialogue on categories at the very heart of literati culture—reclusion, personality, and poetry—this cumulative process spanning fifteen centuries, the author argues, helps explain the very different pictures of Tao Yuanming and the divergent ways of reading his works across time and illuminates central issues animating premodern Chinese culture.

Author : Xiaofei Tian
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295801933

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Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture by Xiaofei Tian Pdf

Winner of a 2006 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award As medieval Chinese manuscripts were copied and recopied through the centuries, both mistakes and deliberate editorial changes were introduced, thereby affecting readers' impressions of the author's intent. In Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture, Xiaofei Tian shows how readers not only experience authors but produce them by shaping texts to their interpretation. Tian examines the mechanics and history of textual transmission in China by focusing on the evolution over the centuries of the reclusive poet Tao Yuanming into a figure of epic stature. Considered emblematic of the national character, Tao Yuanming (also known as Tao Qian, 365?-427 c.e.) is admired for having turned his back on active government service and city life to live a simple rural life of voluntary poverty. The artlessness of his poetic style is held as the highest literary and moral ideal, and literary critics have taken great pains to demonstrate perfect consistency between Tao Yuanming's life and poetry. Earlier work on Tao Yuanming has tended to accept this image, interpreting the poems to confirm the image. Tao Yuanming and Manuscript Culture is a study of how this cultural icon was produced and of the elusive traces of another, historical Tao Yuanming behind the icon. By comparing four early biographies of the poet, Tian shows how these are in large measure constructed out of Tao Yuanming's self-image as projected in his poetry and prose. Drawing on work in European medieval literature, she demonstrates the fluidity of the Chinese medieval textual world and how its materials were historically reconfigured for later purposes. Tian finds in Tao's poetic corpus not one essentialized Tao Yuanming, but multiple texts continuously produced long after the author's physical demise. Her provocative look at the influence of manuscript culture on literary perceptions transcends its immediate subject and has special resonance today, when the transition from print to electronic media is shaking the literary world in a way not unlike the transition from handwritten to print media in medieval China.

Author : Robert Ashmore
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781684175000

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The Transport of Reading by Robert Ashmore Pdf

For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This theme in the reception of Tao Qian, moreover, developed alongside an assumption that Tao was fundamentally misunderstood during his own age. This book revisits Tao’s approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. How would Tao Qian have anticipated that his readers would understand him? No definitive answer is knowable, but this direction of inquiry suggests closer examination of the cultures of reading and understanding of his period. From this inquiry, two interrelated groups of problems emerge as particularly pressing both for Tao Qian and for his contemporaries: first, problems relating to understanding authoritative texts, centered on the relation between meanings and the outward “traces” of those meanings’ expression; second, problems relating to understanding human character, centered on the unworldly scholar—the emblematic figure for the set of values often termed “eremitic.”

Author : Wendy Swartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170951

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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry by Wendy Swartz Pdf

"In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality—the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs—as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs.If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations."

Author : Dennis Maloney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1941783090

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Listening to Tao Yuan Ming by Dennis Maloney Pdf

"Dennis Maloney's exquisite new collection of poetry, Listening to Tao Yuan Ming, offers his superb versions (or 'visions' as he calls them) of Tao Yuan Ming's seminal Twenty Poems After Drinking Wine as well as a sequence of delicate "harmonizing" poems-before the book concludes with its title section, a lyric album of powerful personal reflections. Listening to Tao Yuan Ming is nothing less than a deeply moving conversation across history and culture, as if we were fortunate enough to overhear these two marvelous poets sharing their wine, their times, and their poetry." --David St. John

Author : Qian Tao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009092243

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Selected Poems by Qian Tao Pdf

Author : Tao Chien
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619321441

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The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien by Tao Chien Pdf

T'ao Ch'ien, (365 - 427, C.E.), one of the most revered poets in classical Chinese literature, is presented in a lucid translation with an introduction. "David Hinton is one of the most impressive of the younger translators of classical Chinese poetry.... His renderings are varied and imaginative while remaining faithful to the spirit of the original."--Burton Watson

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 7119098853

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陶渊明诗文选 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Li Ying-Chang
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0761989986

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Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao by Li Ying-Chang Pdf

Taoists and non-Taoists alike consider Lao-Tzu's Treatise on the Response of the Tao, written by the twelfth-century sage Li Ying-Chang, an essential guide to living. Presenting foundational teaching and practices of the Action and Karma school of Taoism, it is replete with stories illustrating the teachings and an introductory essay that discusses the more esoteric meanings of the passages. Told with clarity and depth, these seminal Taoist teachings offer guidance on leading a balanced, healthy life. Sponsored by the Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism

Author : Charles Yim-tze Kwong
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106012160294

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Tao Qian and the Chinese Poetic Tradition by Charles Yim-tze Kwong Pdf

Selected for CHOICE's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1995.

Author : Robert Ashmore
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Chinese poetry
ISBN : 0674053214

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The Transport of Reading by Robert Ashmore Pdf

"This book uses questions concerning address and understanding in Tao Qian's poetry as a lens through which to explore both the poet and the cultures of reading and interpretation of the Six Dynasties classicist tradition"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Shuyuan Lu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811017841

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The Ecological Era and Classical Chinese Naturalism by Shuyuan Lu Pdf

Reflecting the currently growing eco-movement, this book presents to western readers Tao Yuanming, an ancient Chinese poet, as a representative of classical oriental natural philosophy who offered lived experience of “dwelling poetically on earth.” Drawing on Derrida’s specter theory, it interprets Tao Yuanming in a postmodern and eco-critical context, while also exploring his naturalist “kindred spirits” in other countries, so as to urge the people of today to contemplate their own existence and pursuits. The book’s “panoramic” table of contents offers readers a wonderful reading experience.

Author : Jerome P. Seaton,Dennis Maloney
Publisher : White Pine Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1877727377

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A Drifting Boat by Jerome P. Seaton,Dennis Maloney Pdf

Poetry. This anthology gathers together over 1500 years of Chinese Zen (Ch'an) poetry from the earliest writing, including the Hsin Hsin Ming written by the 3rd Patriarch, to the poetry of monks in this century. Poets include Wang Wei, Li Po, Tu Fu, Yuan Mei, the crazy hermits Han-shan and Shih-te, as well as many anonymous monks and hermits.

Author : 陶潛
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1319583562

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陶渊明集 by 陶潛 Pdf

Author : Daniel A. Bell
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691233987

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Just Hierarchy by Daniel A. Bell Pdf

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is neither possible nor advisable to do away with social hierarchies. Drawing their arguments from Chinese thought and culture as well as other philosophies and traditions, Bell and Wang ask which forms of hierarchy are justified and how these can serve morally desirable goals. They look at ways of promoting just forms of hierarchy while minimizing the influence of unjust ones, such as those based on race, sex, or caste. Which hierarchical relations are morally justified and why? Bell and Wang argue that it depends on the nature of the social relation and context. Different hierarchical principles ought to govern different kinds of social relations: what justifies hierarchy among intimates is different from what justifies hierarchy among citizens, countries, humans and animals, and humans and intelligent machines. Morally justified hierarchies can and should govern different spheres of our social lives, though these will be very different from the unjust hierarchies that have governed us in the past. A vigorous, systematic defense of hierarchy in the modern world, Just Hierarchy examines how hierarchical social relations can have a useful purpose, not only in personal domains but also in larger political realms.