A Wild Deer amid Soaring Phoenixes : : The Opposition Poetics of Wang Ji / / Ding Xiang Warner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Warner, Ding Xiang,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Credited in China as a "transitional" figure, Wang Ji (590-644) is known for his revival of eremitic themes from the earlier Wei-Jin period and for anticipating the rise of regulated verse forms in the "golden era" of Tang poetry. Yet throughout the centuries Wang Ji has puzzled readers and sometimes offended their moral sensibilities by his unapologetic celebrations of his life as a round-the-clock drinker. Until now scholars have treated him primarily as a problem of biography and have struggled to find "evidence" in his work for his reclusive and unwieldy character and, once and for all, to tell the story of his life and thought. This in-depth study of the early Tang-dynasty poet, the first to be published in a Western language, surveys the complete range of Wang Ji's enigmatic literary self-representation and proposes new ways of understanding the poetics behind his practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction Reading Wang Ji -- 1 .Wang Ji and Sui-Tang Literati Culture -- 2. The Recluse as Philosopher -- 3 .The Recluse as Farmer-Scholar -- 4. The Recluse as Drunkard -- 5. "You Beishan fu" and the Problem of Knowing -- Conclusion The Idealization of the Recluse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index of Titles in English -- Index of Titles in Chinese