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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453186403321

Autore

Schmidt J. D (Jerry Dean), <1946->

Titolo

Harmony garden : the life, literary criticism, and poetry of Yuan Mei (1716-1798) / / J.D. Schmidt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-138-86341-6

1-315-02915-4

1-136-86217-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (781 p.)

Disciplina

895.1148

Soggetti

Chinese poetry - Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 - History and criticism

Poets, Chinese - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2003 by RoutledgeCurzon.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Preface; Chronology; Glossary of Chinese literary terms; The Thirteen Confucian Classics; Abbreviations; I BIOGRAPHY; Chapter One The early years; Chapter Two In Harmony Garden; Chapter Three The later years; II YUAN MEl'S LITERARY THEORY AND PRACTICE; Chapter Four The principles of poetry; Chapter Five The practice of poetry; Chapter Six Evaluation; Ill MAJOR STYLES AND THEMES; Chapter Seven Song-dynasty verse and Yuan Mei's ""normal"" style; Chapter Eight The historical style and the Qing re-examination of history

Chapter Nine The political style and the Literary InquisitionChapter Ten The didactic style; Chapter Eleven Narrative poetry; Chapter Twelve Eccentric verse and the Yangzhou artists; Chapter Thirteen The exploration of nature; IV APPENDIX: A TOUR OF HARMONY GARDEN; V TRANSLATIONS; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first complete study of China's most popular eighteenth-century poet in any Western language. The work consists of a detailed biography, a study of Yuan's revolutionary reinterpretation of Chinese literary theory, and an analysis of his many contributions to the more original genres of Qing-dynasty (1644-1911) poetry such as narrative,



historical, didactic, eccentric, and nature verse. The study is concluded by a generous and representative sampling of Yuan's poetry in translation, the first to do justice to the wide variety and richness of his oeuvre. Although many shorter poems a