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Tracking the Banished Immortal : The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception / Paula M. Varsano.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780824825737
  • 9780824865276
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 895.1/13 21
LOC classification:
  • PL2671 .V37 2003
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: READING THE CRITICS -- 1. Finding Substance in Emptiness: Tracking the Immortal, Mid-Tang through Ming -- 2. To Study the Unlearnable: Li Bo in the Canon, Ming to Early Republic -- II: READING THE POEMS -- 3. The Performance of Ancientness in the ''Ancient Airs'' -- 4. The Yuefu: The Anatomy of an Unfettering -- 5. Alluding to Immediacy -- 6. Epilogue: Li Bo Remembering and Remembered -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the "Banished Immortal," he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this lucid and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception. Persuaded that the essence of his poetry lay well beyond the reach of the usual modes of study and description, readers from the ninth to the twentieth century developed a particularly dynamic critical language. Varsano shows how this language, evolving out of the critical concepts of "emptiness" and "substance," answered the need to conceptualize shifting parameters of poetic creativity over hundreds of years. At the same time, she offers an account of Li Bo's entry into the canon and asks how this in turn transformed both the reception of his work and the transmission of his poetic persona. This story of Li Bo's critical reception and canonization is propelled by the malleable and elusive ideal of the "ancient." And so, Varsano devotes the second part of her study to the poems themselves, investigating those poetic manifestations of ancientness that translated into the enduring figure of the Banished Immortal.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: READING THE CRITICS -- 1. Finding Substance in Emptiness: Tracking the Immortal, Mid-Tang through Ming -- 2. To Study the Unlearnable: Li Bo in the Canon, Ming to Early Republic -- II: READING THE POEMS -- 3. The Performance of Ancientness in the ''Ancient Airs'' -- 4. The Yuefu: The Anatomy of an Unfettering -- 5. Alluding to Immediacy -- 6. Epilogue: Li Bo Remembering and Remembered -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Character Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

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Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the "Banished Immortal," he continues to spark imaginations and challenge passionately held convictions about poetic values. In this lucid and gracefully written volume, Paula Varsano presents the first full-length study of Li Bo in English in half a century and the first extended look at the poet's critical reception. Persuaded that the essence of his poetry lay well beyond the reach of the usual modes of study and description, readers from the ninth to the twentieth century developed a particularly dynamic critical language. Varsano shows how this language, evolving out of the critical concepts of "emptiness" and "substance," answered the need to conceptualize shifting parameters of poetic creativity over hundreds of years. At the same time, she offers an account of Li Bo's entry into the canon and asks how this in turn transformed both the reception of his work and the transmission of his poetic persona. This story of Li Bo's critical reception and canonization is propelled by the malleable and elusive ideal of the "ancient." And so, Varsano devotes the second part of her study to the poems themselves, investigating those poetic manifestations of ancientness that translated into the enduring figure of the Banished Immortal.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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