- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 218 pages)
- Summary
- "'Recite and refuse' is a genre study of contemporary mainland Chinese prose poetry that focuses on work produced after 1949. It reads prose poetry through its compositional processes, primary among which are the acts of recitation (the re-performance of prior texts) and refusal (the assertion of difference from prior art). These processes have their origin in the orthodox socialist poetics of the Hundred Flowers Movement, during which poets ventriloquized and subjectivized official party prose; over the course of several decades, they have migrated uneasily into the avant-garde, in which artists use recitation and refusal as a way to make prose something quite different from the trustworthy, transparent literary form it is sometimes assumed to be. The book also serves as a small anthology of translations: it includes pieces by Ke Lan, Guo Feng, Liu Zaifu, Xi Chuan, among others, and contains the first complete English version of the intricate, epic prose poem 'Hanging coffin' by Ouyang Jianghe"--
- Uniform Title
- Recite and refuse (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Recite and refuse (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 207-218).
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- What is a Chinese prose poem? -- What is the tradition of Chinese prose poetry? -- Orthodox Chinese prose poetry -- Semi-orthodox Chinese prose poetry: Liu Zaifu -- Unorthodox Chinese prose poetry: Ouyang Jianghe and Xi Chuan.
- LCCN
- 2016009472
- OCLC
- ssj0001716253
- Author
Admussen, Nick.
- Title
Recite and refuse [electronic resource] : contemporary Chinese prose poetry / Nick Admussen.
- Imprint
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2016]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 207-218).
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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