Format:
ix, 354 Seiten
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780231209632
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9780231209625
Content:
"The Matter of Inscription investigates how early modern writers scrutinized human attachments to the material world by engraving words onto things. "Inscription" (ming), a genre of Chinese literature linked to the sages of antiquity, typically took the form of a terse poem or epigram etched upon the surface of the object it names. These short messages, some only 8 or 12 characters long, speak with and as things, personifying objects or addressing them as if they could talk back. Late imperial authors, facing profound upheavals in the marketplace and the violent destruction of war, turned to inscription to probe and reimagine the connections between human bodies and the everyday things they surround themselves with. The book argues that inscription-the act of carving words on objects-became a central means through which late imperial authors conceived of their relationship to the technology, material infrastructure, and futures of writing"--
Content:
Thomas Kelly develops a new account of the relationship between Chinese literature and material culture by examining inscribed objects from the late Ming and early to mid-Qing dynasties
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Matter of Inscription1. On Remnant Things2. Writing with a Knife3. The Ink-Makers Mark4. Antiquarian PoetryEpilogue: Broken StonesNotesBibliographyIndex
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231558037
Language:
English
Keywords:
China
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Inschrift
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Geschichte 1550-1800
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