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

• Autore: Steininger Brian
• Pubblicazione: Boston : , : Harvard University Asia Center, , 2017; Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages )
• Disciplina: 895.609/0014
• Soggetto topico: Japanese literature - Chinese influences; Japanese literature - Heian period, 794-1185 - History and criticism; Kanbungaku (Japanese literature) - History and criticism; Kundoku; Literacy - Japan - History; Oral interpretation
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-278) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Gifts and governors: Heian capital society in Utsuho monogatari -- The stratification of Heian officialdom - Atemiya's suitors: insiders and outsiders in Utsuho monogatari -- Zuryo and the Heian network of reciprocity -- Conclusion: Service and reward -- 2. Honcho monzui and the social dynamics of literary culture -- The transformation of ritual space -- The "splendor" of commissioned composition -- Conclusion: Inscribing difference -- 3. Couplet collections and aesthetic strategy -- Parallelism and topical exposition -- The rhetoric of erudition -- Jukkai and decontextualized poetry -- Conclusion -- 4. Glosses and primers: Heian education and literacy -- The structure of the Academy -- Elementary education and primers -- Glossing and commentaries -- Truth and method in the Academy -- Essential knowledge -- Conclusion -- 5. Reading out loud: literary writing and oral performance -- Breaking bun - Literary form and kundoku reception -- The limits of literature -- The princess's encyclopedia -- Conclusion: The audible literary -- Conclusion: The changing purview of literary Sinitic.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Altri titoli varianti: Poetics and Practice
• Titolo autorizzato: Chinese literary forms in Heian Japan
• ISBN: 9781684175765; 1684175763
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961578903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; ; 401.