In the Voice of Others: Chinese Music Bureau Poetry (Volume 63) (Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies)

In the Voice of Others applies new critical methods to medieval works in the genre known as Music Bureau poetry ( yuefu shi ), stripping away layers of ossified conventional reading to expose the genres vital core. Arguing that Music Bureau poetry is best understood in terms of the imitative poetics now known as intratextuality, Allen explores the evolution of yuefu poetry and issues central to all genre formation. In the Voice of Others culminates in an in-depth consideration of the acknowledged master of Music Bureau poetry, the Tang poet Li Bo (Li Po). content bibliography Glossary notes ch.1 ch.2 ch.3 ch.4 ch.5 ch.6 ch.7 introduction/genre textual relationship ch.1 textuality in chinese culture imitative poetics in wenxuan anxiety in post-Tang ch.2 genre defined/redefined intratextual reconsidered conclusion 4th: thematic imitation=secondary 3rd: literari poems=derivative 2nd: originates in Han 1st assumption musicality ch.3 thematic lines conclusion loose ends water lines-fire and ice border lines-tripartite title dreams and letters ch.4 knots Joseph R. Allen. Includes Translations Of 120 Poems. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [267]-278) And Index.