Word, Image, and Deed in the Life of Su Shi - Couverture rigide

Egan, Ronald C.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674955986 ISBN 13 : 9780674955981

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Remembered today primarily as a poet, calligrapher, and critic, the protean Su Shi was an outspoken player in the contentious politics and intellectual debates of the Northern Song dynasty. In this comprehensive study, Egan analyzes Su's literary and artistic work against the background of eleventhcentury developments within Buddhist and Confucian thought and Su's dogged disagreement with the New Policies of Wang Anshi. Egan explicates Su's views on governance, the classics, and Buddhism; and he describes Su's social-welfare initiatives, arrest for disloyalty, and exiles. Finding a key to the richness of Su's artistic activities in his vacillation on the significance of aesthetic pursuits, Egan explores Su's shi and ci poetry and Su's promotion of painting and calligraphy, looking specially at the problem of subjectivity. In a concluding chapter, he reconsiders Su's role as a founder of the wenren ("literati") and challenges the conventional understanding of both Su and the Northern Song wenren generally.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ronald C. Egan is Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674955986
• ISBN 13: 9780674955981
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 380
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