Drifting among Rivers and Lakes : : Southern Song Dynasty Poetry and the Problem of Literary History / / Michael Fuller.

What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shipoetry from the late Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) to the end of the Sou...

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Superior document:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 86
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2013.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2013.
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 86.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Casting off: a theoretical introduction
  • The other shore: China and the early history of the literary
  • The source and streams flowing from it
  • "West of the river": the Jiangxi poets
  • The Jiangxi style in the field of cultural production
  • Sounding bottom: Yang Wanli and the dynamics of poetic experience
  • Reading the wind: Lu You and the poetics of experience
  • Head winds: displacing the aesthetic in Daoxue
  • Discourse from the Northern Song to Zhu Xi
  • Changing course: the discourse of the way in mid-Southern Song China
  • Drifting amidst rivers and lakes: poetry in the early thirteenth century
  • An inner compass: the poetry of experience at dynasty's end.