Format:
ix, 363 S
ISBN:
9780674504370
Series Statement:
Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series 96
Content:
"Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and weaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts"--Provided by the publisher
Content:
"Explores the literature of the mid-Tang to reveal the complex value that its writers discovered in friendship--as a rewarding social practice, a rich literary topic, a way to negotiate literati identity, and a path toward self-understanding. Shields traces the evolution of the performance of friendship through a wide range of genres, including letters, prefaces, exchange poetry, and funerary texts, and weaves elegant translations with close readings of these texts"--Provided by the publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Introduction: Figuring FriendshipOne. Contexts for Friendship in Mid-Tang Literary Culture -- The Discourse of Friendship -- Historical Patterns and Evolving Terms -- Social and Cultural Contexts -- Two. Building Networks: Friendship, Patronage, and Celebrity -- Seeking a Patron: Writing for the zhiji -- Selling Meng Jiao: Friendship and Patronage -- Becoming Bai Juyi: Friendship and Celebrity -- Three. Responding in Kind: Friendship and Poetic Exchange -- Mid-Tang Perspectives on Poetic Exchange and Friendship -- Collaboration and Competition: The Linked Verses of Han Yu and Meng Jiao -- Contesting the Past: The Nostalgic Exchanges of Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen -- Four. To Know and Be Known: The Epistemology of Friendship -- Epistemological Dimensions of Letters to Friends -- Understanding: Using the Knowledge of Friendship -- Misunderstanding: Negotiating Criticism and Conflict in Letters -- Coda: In the Absence of Knowledge -- Five. For the Dead and the Living: Performing Friendship after Death -- Funerary Inscriptions for Friends -- Offering Texts and the Performance of Friendship -- Writing the Life and Death of Han Yu -- Conclusion.
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Teilw. in chines. Schrift
Language:
English
Keywords:
Chinesisch
;
Literatur
;
Tangdynastie
;
Schriftsteller
;
Freundschaft
;
Geschichte 780-830
