Reconsidering Tu Fu
Literary Greatness and Cultural Context
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- Author: Eva Shan Chou
- Date Published: November 2006
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- isbn: 9780521028288
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Tu Fu is, by universal consent, the greatest poet of the Chinese tradition and the epitome of the Chinese moral conscience at its highest. In Reconsidering Tu Fu, Eva Shan Chou examines Tu Fu both as a cultural monument and as a poet. She investigates the evolution of his stature as an icon, and provides translations of many poems, both well known and obscure. Her analyses are both original in their formulation and considerate of the many fine readings of traditional commentators.
Read more- Informed, jargon-free analysis of poetry of China's greatest poet
- Both major and less well-known poems translated and context supplied
- A comprehensive analysis that links Tu Fu's life, work and emergence as a cultural icon
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"...very well produced....[an] excellent book. Eva Shan Chou has sorted through and straightened out questions of great complexity and done so with admirable intelligence." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
See more reviews"...the author introduces some new analytical concepts that enhance understanding and appreciation of Tu Fu's poems. The result is a fresh and innovative look at some familiar verses. Chou's original, insightful, and comprehensive criticism focuses on the poems rather than on theoretical dogma. This is the most important study on Tu Fu to appear in many years. Even Chinese literature experts will profit from reading it. Highly recommended for all collections of traditional Chinese poetry." Choice
"Chou takes a critical look at the construction of cultural forces that enthrones Tu Fu's work in such universal esteem. She also provides an analytical treatment of the poetry which technical poetics has rarely attempted before." The Reader's Review
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521028288
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.385kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Foreword James R. Hightower
Preface
Part I. The Legacy of Tu Fu:
1. Historical background and biography
2. The cultural legacy
3. The poetic legacy
Part II. Social Conscience: Compassion and Topicality in the Poetry:
4. Subject matter
5. Realism
6. Stylized realism
Part III. Juxtaposition I: A Structural Principle:
7. Juxtaposition defined
8. Examples
9. Juxtaposition and other structures
Part IV. Juxtaposition II: A Biographical Analogue:
10. Chronology
11. Mechanism
12. Solipsism
13. Coda
Conclusion: Sincerity reconsidered
Selected editions of the works of Tu Fu
Works cited
Poems by Tu Fu
Index.
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