The Late Tang
Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
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Word Count
149,000 words, Guess
Page Count
596 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9481502M
- ISBN-139780674021372
- ISBN-100674021371
- OCLC Control Number70778334
- Library of Congress Control Number2006024793
and 2 more
- LibraryThing6405220
- Goodreads1073907
Classifications
- LCCPL2321 .O94135 2006
Description
"In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the literary history of the Tang that he began in his works on the Early and High Tang. Focusing in particular on Du Mu, Li Shangyin, and Wen Tingyun, he analyzes the redirection of poetry interests that followed the deaths of the major poets of the High and Mid-Tang and the rejection of their poetic styles. The Late Tang, Owen argues, forces us to change our very notion of the history of poetry. Poets had always drawn on the past poetry, but in the Late Tang, the poetic past was beginning to assume the form it would have for the next millennium; it was becoming a repertoire of available choices - styles, genres, the voices of past poets. It was this repertoire that would endure."--BOOK JACKET.
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