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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Chinese poetry"”.
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The Significance of Birds in Early Chinese Poetry
… of avian imagery across a wide range of early Chinese poetry: the Shijing, the Chu ci, works from the Yuefu 樂府 (Music Bureau collection) and its related anthologies – Zuo Keming’s 左克明 (fl. 14th cent.), Gu Yuefu 古樂府 (‘Ancient Music Bureau collection’), Guo Maoqian’s 郭茂倩 (c.a. 1041–1099) Yuefu …
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On Ezra Pound's Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay
… focuses on Ezra Pound's translation of Classical Chinese Poetry in Cathay. A comparative study of Pound's translations with the original Chinese poems and versions by other translators is conducted. The theoretical framework adopted is Toury's (1995) Descriptive Translation Studies (DTS): an …
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新加坡华文诗歌中的国家意识(1945-1970) = A Study of State Awareness in Singapore's Chinese Poetry (1945-1970)
… to a smooth transition, there was a group of Chinese poets in Singapore who dedicated themselves to hard writing. Some of them came from China, others were native born and bred authors; some remained ideologically neutral, whereas others inclined towards a popular ?Left-wing Literary Movement? …
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Literary genre and philosophical discourse in the Buddhist poetics of Han Yongun (1879-1944)
… his 1926 collection of vernacular free verse poetry, Your Silence (Nirnw ch'irnrnuk). Despite the quality of the poems contained in this collection, a crucial element in securing Han's literary reputation has been his participation in the March First Independence Movement of 1919. The poetry …
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Literary genre and philosophical discourse in the Buddhist poetics of Han Yongun (1879-1944)
… his 1926 collection of vernacular free verse poetry, Your Silence (Nirnw ch'irnrnuk). Despite the quality of the poems contained in this collection, a crucial element in securing Han's literary reputation has been his participation in the March First Independence Movement of 1919. The poetry …
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Poetics of transparency: hermeneutics of Du Fu (712-770) during the Late Ming (1368-1644) and Early Qing (1644-1911) periods
Traditional Chinese poetry and poetics demonstrate a strong belief in the idea of transparency: within the Chinese tradition poetry was often considered as a transparent medium which grants reader a seemingly unmediated access to the historical past and the poet's mind. In their discussion of this …
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Frost Bitten Lotus
… This is a set of sanqu (散曲, a form of classical Chinese poetry written to be sung) created by Liu Bingzhong, a Yuan dynasty writer. It's considered an excellent work that combines sanqu and folk songs, where the author creates meaning from the subject matter itself. This Yuan dynasty song is …
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How Does Poetry Confess? Zhai Yongming's Poems and the Landscape of "Confession"
<p>In the 1980s, a Chinese poet, Zhai Yongming (翟永明), published a linked suite of nineteen poems. Zhai entitled this sequence “Women” (Nǚren女人) and claimed that her poems were largely influenced by American confessional poets such as Sylvia Plath. Chinese critics suggest that Zhai inaugurates the …
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Shadow of dew drops for piano trio
… violin, violoncello and piano was inspired by a poetry of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) "Xiao Chi - A little Pond" written by the famous poet Yang Wanli (1127-1206). This poetry depicts: the silent mouth of a spring "cherishes" the little streamlet and lets it flow quietly into the pond; the shadow …
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A Phenomenological Approach to Comparison: The Non-Metaphorical Poetics of Paul Celan and Wang Wei
… master poets of the Táng Dynasty when classical Chinese poetry was at its peak. A traditional approach to comparison would seek to establish certain "common denominators" by applying pre-given historical, cultural or linguistic influences as commensurable categories of analysis. However, the …
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Tamám : trace, reinterpretation and the periphery of poetic translation.
… project, Tamám; four translations of the Chinese T’ang poet Yu Xuanji; and an accompanying critical commentary. Tamám is a present-day reimagining of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám consisting of one-hundred-and-one quatrains. It frames translation as a creative process informed by …
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Elegies for Empire: The Poetics of Memory in the Late Work of Du Fu (712-770)
… of the past at a key turning point in Chinese history by mapping out what I term a poetics of memory in the more than four hundred poems written by Du Fu (712-770) during his two-year stay in the remote town of Kuizhou (modern Fengjie). A survivor of the catastrophic An Lushan rebellion …
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The a cappella choral music of Chen Yi: 1985-2010
… musical idioms and transforms traditional Chinese poetry into sonic pictures. Chen Yi was born in Guangzhou, China and received her musical training at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. In 1986, she came to the United States to pursue doctoral study at Columbia University in New …
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An Investigation of Holographic Technologies Applied to Contemporary Art Practice A new approach to temporal aesthetics
… the holographic image replaying process and the Chinese bamboo slips structure to create a scroll form of an artwork presentation, which suggests a viewer to observe with an unrolling activity, section by section. The role of light in this approach is essential as it not only reconstructs the …
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The tension of national allegory: the search for Chinese identity and modernity – an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization
This dissertation focuses on an analysis of Chinese literature in the post-Mao era in the context of globalization. It utilizes Fredric Jameson's third-world cultural theory, particularly his ideas relating to national allegory, and applies theoretical constructs, such as postmodernism (e.g the …
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Cultivating a poetic heart-mind: Yu Ji’s vision of self-cultivation, aesthetic education, and its contemporary implications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01