Brocade River Poems (eBook)

Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan

Xue Tao (Autor)

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2016
141 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8401-8 (ISBN)

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Xue Tao (A.D. 768-831) was well known as a poet in an age when all men of learning were poets--and almost all women were illiterate. As an entertainer and official government hostess, she met, and impressed, many of the most talented and powerful figures of her day. As a maker of beautiful paper and a Taoist churchwoman, she maintained a life of independence and aesthetic sensibility. As a writer, she crrated a body of work that is by turns deeply moving, amusing, and thought-provoking. Drawing knowledgeably on a rich literary tradition, she created images that here live again for the contemporary reader of English. This bilingual edition contains about two-thirds of Xue Tao's extant poems. The translations are based on accurate readings of the originals and extensive research in both Chinese and Japanese materials. The notes at the end of the book explain allusions and place the poems in the context of medieval Chinese culture and its great literary heritage, while the opening essay introduces Xue Tao's work and describes her unusual life history.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.6.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Reihe/Serie: The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
• Übersetzer: Jeanne Larsen
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Allegory • Allusion • amy lowell • ancient China • Anecdote • Appellation • assonance • bamboo shoot • Barbarian • Biography • brothel • Buddhism • Calligraphy • Central Asia • Chengdu • child prodigy • China • Chinese poetry • Chongqing • Chrysanthemum • Circumlocution • Classic of Filial Piety • Confucianism • connotation • Couplet • courtesan • Cress (novel) • Edmund Keeley • english poetry • En route (novel) • Epigram • Euphemism • fairy • flattery • folk religion • Genre • Gentlewoman • gold leaf • independent woman • Ingeborg Bachmann • Internal rhyme • Jade Emperor • Lament • Leonard Nathan • Li Qingzhao • Literature • Liu Yuxi • Longevity • Long poem • Lyric Poetry • malapropism • mansion • mary ann caws • Mid-Autumn Festival • Ming Dynasty • Mount Emei • My Country • Naiad • Nanzhao • new poems • Nickname • On the Mountain • Parakeet • Paulownia • Philip Sherrard • poetic diction • Poetry • Prose • Pun • qiao • Qutang Gorge • Rainer Maria Rilke • Robert van Gulik • Scholar-official • Sexual slang • shallows • Sichuan • Sichuan Basin • Silver Age • simile • Slavery • Song Yu • Sonnet • Son of Heaven • Subtext • Surname • Suzerainty • Tang Dynasty • tang poetry • Taoism • The Concubine (novel) • The Various • Virginia Woolf • Wang Xizhi • Xue • Xue Tao • Yin and Yang • Yu Xuanji • Zheng (state) • Zhuo
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8401-2 / 1400884012
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8401-8 / 9781400884018