Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China

Anne Birrell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-77076-1 (ISBN)

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This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC – AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Dr Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, dating, attribution, textual variants, multiforms, metre, generic title, song title and structure. This careful and thorough treatment is especially necessary for a corpus of anonymous popular texts which are often corrupt, structurally confusing, laconic and full of nonsense words and colloquialisms. Her introductory essay provides a socio-historical context for this material and charts its literary transmission, while singling out special characteristics of the genre, such as musical, oral and dramatic elements. The main text, arranged into eleven chapters plus an introduction, is supplemented by notes, appendices, maps, chronology, bibliography and index.

Anne Birrell

1. Hymns, 2. Fables in Verse, 3. The Elixir of Life, 4. Carpe Diem, 5. Burial Songs, 6. Political Broadsides, 7. Anti-War Ballads and Songs, 8. Domestic Drama, 9. Homeward Thoughts, 10. Love Songs, 11. The Ideal Home and Perfect Marriage

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Library Editions: Chinese Literature and Arts
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-367-77076-8 / 0367770768
ISBN-13	978-0-367-77076-1 / 9780367770761
Zustand	Neuware