03508nam 22006012 450 991086080910332120230811051229.01-68417-648-410.1163/9781684176489(CKB)4900000001453280(OCoLC)1240774131(nllekb)BRILL9781684176489(OCoLC)1312732380(MdBmJHUP)musev2_113547(MiAaPQ)EBC30870229(Au-PeEL)EBL30870229(EXLCZ)99490000000145328020220331h20222021 uy 0engurun| uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierDu Fu Transforms Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse /Lucas Rambo Bender1st ed.Leiden ;Boston :Brill | Harvard University Asia Center,[2022]©20211 online resourceHarvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 20210-674-26017-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Time and authority : early poems (before 755) -- Omen and chaos : poems of frustration and foreboding (through 755) -- Convention and nature : the outbreak of the rebellion (756-57) -- Narrative and experience : poems of the western frontiers (late 759) -- Vision and the mundane : Du Fu's years in Western Sichuan (760-65) -- History and community : Kuizhou poems (766-68) -- Contingency and adaptation : last poems (768-70)"Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability and prosperity. When his society collapsed into civil war in 755, however, he began to question contemporary assumptions about the role that tradition should play in making sense of experience and defining human flourishing. In this book, Lucas Bender argues that Du Fu's reconsideration of the nature and importance of tradition has played a pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding over the last millennium. In reimagining his relationship to tradition, Du Fu anticipated important philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and perduring paradigm of poetry's relationship to ethics. He also looked forward to the transformations his own poetry would undergo as it was elevated to the pinnacle of the Chinese poetic pantheon"--Provided by publisher.Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021.Tradition and Ethics amid Societal CollapseChinese poetryTang dynasty, 618-907History and criticismEthics in literatureLiterature and societyChinaHistoryTo 1500Manners and customs in literatureChinafastLiterary criticism.lcgftChinese poetryHistory and criticismEthics in literature.Literature and societyHistoryManners and customs in literature.895.11/3Bender Lucas Rambo1741761NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910860809103321Du Fu Transforms4167980UNINA