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Author:

Steininger, Brian, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

The Harvard University Asia Center,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Kanbungaku (Japanese literature)--History and criticism.
Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.
Japanese literature--Chinese influences.
Literacy--Japan--History.
Kundoku.
Oral interpretation.
Japanese literature--Chinese influences.
Japanese literature--Heian period.
Kanbungaku (Japanese literature)
Kundoku.
Literacy.
Oral interpretation.
Japan.
794-1185
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

1. Gifts and governors: Heian capital society in Utsuho monogatari -- 2. Honcho monzui and the social dynamics of literary culture -- 3. Couplet collections and aesthetic strategy -- 4. Glosses and primers: Heian education and literacy -- 5. Reading out loud: literary writing and oral performance -- Conclusion: The changing purview of literary Sinitic.

Summary:

"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 practical use among the capital nobility and modifications of Tang aesthetic principles"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 401

ISBN:

0674975154
9780674975156

OCLC:

(OCoLC)953918977

LCCN:

2016028797

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)