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Record Nr.

UNINA9910479985403321

Autore

Blanchard Lara C. W.

Titolo

Song dynasty figures of longing and desire : gender and interiority in Chinese painting and poetry / / by Lara C.W. Blanchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

90-04-36939-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 pages)

Collana

Women and gender in China studies ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

700/.45220951

Soggetti

Painting, Chinese - Song-Yuan dynasties, 960-1368 - Themes, motives

Women in art

Women in literature

Sex (Psychology) in art

Sex (Psychology) in literature

Chinese poetry - Song dynasty, 960-1279 - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Gendered Subjectivity and Representing Interiority -- 2 Political Interpretations of Desire -- 3 Male Audience and Authorship: Projecting Desire and Longing onto the Female Figure -- 4 The Female Audience: Modeling Idealized Femininity -- Conclusion: Interiority and the Value of Connection -- Works Cited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Song Dynasty Figures of Longing and Desire , Lara Blanchard analyzes images of women in painting and poetry of China’s middle imperial period, focusing on works that represent female figures as preoccupied with romance. She discusses examples of visual and literary culture in regard to their authorship and audience, examining the role of interiority in constructions of gender, exploring the rhetorical functions of romantic images, and considering connections between subjectivity and representation. The paintings in particular have sometimes been interpreted as simple representations of the daily lives of women, or as straightforward artifacts of heteroerotic desire;



Blanchard proposes that such works could additionally be interpreted as political allegories, representations of the artist’s or patron’s interiorities, or models of idealized femininity.