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

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 401
• VerfasserIn: Steininger, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2017.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 401.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages )

"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 practi...

Table of Contents

• 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.