Reconsidering Tu Fu : literary greatness and cultural context /

Reconsidering Tu Fu : literary greatness and cultural context / Eva Shan Chou.

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Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition. In the epochal An Lu-shan rebellion, he alone of his contemporaries consistently recorded in poetry the great events and pervasive sufferings of the time. For a millennium, Tu Fu's poetry has been accepted as epitomizin...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Chou, E. Shan (Eva Shan)
Other Authors: Du, Fu, 712-770
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Cambridge studies in Chinese history, literature, and institutions.
Subjects:
Du, Fu, > 712-770 > Criticism and interpretation.
Du, Fu, > 712-770.
221 B.C.-960 A.D
Chinese literature > 221 B.C.-960 A.D. > History and criticism.
Chinese literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / James R. Hightower
  • 1. The legacy of Tu Fu. Historical background and biography. The cultural legacy. The poetic legacy
  • 2. Social conscience: Compassion and topicality in the poetry. Subject matter. Realism. Stylized realism
  • 3. Juxtaposition I: A structural principle. Juxtaposition defined. Examples. Juxtaposition and other structures
  • 4. Juxtaposition II: A biographical analogue. Chronology. Mechanism. Solipsism. Coda
  • Conclusion: Sincerity reconsidered
  • Selected editions of the works of Tu Fu
  • Poems by Tu Fu.

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