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Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice
- Title
- Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice / Brian Steininger.
- Author
- Steininger, Brian
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Examines the transformation of Chinese literary genres in mid-Heian Japan by focusing on the ritualized recitation practices through which these works were performed and heard. This reconstruction of recitation as both a social and literary act demonstrates Sinographic literature's practical use among the capital nobility and modifications of Tang aesthetic principles"--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Gifts and governors : Heian capital society in Utsuho monogatari -- Honchō monzui and the social dynamics of literary culture -- Couplet collections and aesthetic strategy -- Glosses and primers : Heian education and literacy -- Reading out loud : literary writing and oral performance -- Conclusion : the changing purview of literary Sinitic -- Appendix A. Selections from Sakumon diatai -- Appendix B. Preface to Wamyō ruijushō.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-7672
- ISBN
- 9780674975156
- 0674975154
- LCCN
- 2016028797
- 40027280642
- OCLC
- 953918977
- Author
- Steininger, Brian, author.
- Title
- Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice / Brian Steininger.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027280642
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-7672