Research Catalog

Title

Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan : poetics and practice / Brian Steininger.

Author

Steininger, Brian

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.

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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.

Subject

• 794-1185
• Kanbungaku (Japanese literature) > History and criticism
• Japanese literature > Heian period, 794-1185 > History and criticism
• Japanese literature > Chinese influences
• Literacy > Japan > History
• Kundoku
• Oral interpretation
• Japanese literature > Heian period
• Kanbungaku (Japanese literature)
• Kundoku
• Literacy
• Japan

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Gifts and governors: Heian capital society in Utsuho monogatari -- 2. Honcho monzui and the social dynamics of literary culture -- 3. Couplet collections and aesthetic strategy -- 4. Glosses and primers: Heian education and literacy -- 5. Reading out loud: literary writing and oral performance -- Conclusion: The changing purview of literary Sinitic.

ISBN

• 9780674975156
• 0674975154

LCCN

^^2016028797

OCLC

953918977

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library