By Stephen Owen
Hailed because the most crucial and such a lot accomplished unmarried learn of Tang poetry to have seemed in English whilst initially released through Yale collage Press in 1981, this Quirin Press Revised variation brings again into print this a lot wanted identify and provides the complete unique textual content with the next positive aspects: Older Wade-Giles transliteration absolutely up-to-date and revised to the present Pinyin usual; absolutely re-typeset and proofed for typographical blunders and inconsistencies. New improved index together with chinese language characters; additionally on hand in an absolutely searchable ebook layout together with chinese language unicode characters ISBN: 978-1-922169-07-5 (pdf) Following Owen's research in "The Poetry of Early Tang" (also to be had from Quirin Press) of poetry as an artwork of social gesture and social gathering this identify explores the poetry of the excessive Tang which has usually been known as "apogee of all chinese language poetry." instead of only defining the poetic paintings of 8th century China via Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu, Owen delves into the norms of the age to develop into accustomed to the symbiotic courting that existed either among the most important and lesser skills of the age, and the final literary culture. In those pages the poetry of the excessive Tang involves lifestyles as a self-conscious artwork shape, which, mixed with a rekindling of China's poetic previous, result in a extra own mode of expression and person voice that culminated within the exceptional and awesome efflorescence of the artwork. Extracts on hand on www.quirinpress.com key words: chinese language Poetry - Tang Dynasty 618-907 - Poetics - heritage & feedback. Owen's significant other quantity at the Early Tang can be to be had from Quirin Press ISBN: 978-1-922169-02-0 (paperback) ISBN: 978-1-922169-03-7 (pdf). For additional details and extracts stopover at www.quirinpress.com
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