Women''s Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China - A Dialogic Engagement

Informationen zum Autor Haihong Yang is assistant professor of Chinese in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Delaware. Klappentext This study examines women poets and their poetry in late imperial China. The author explores the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, places their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and analyzes how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns. Zusammenfassung This study examines women poets and their poetry in late imperial China. The author explores the poetic forms and devices women poets employed! places their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period! and analyzes how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary! social! and political concerns. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: "Weaving Looms in Hundreds of Rooms": Women-Authored Criticism in Late Imperial ChinaChapter 2: The Female Recluse: The Trope of Withdrawal and Self-Representation in Poems by Two Late Ming/Early Qing Women WritersChapter 3: Playful Seriousness: Women's "Teasingly Composed" PoemsChapter 4: "To Blaze One's Own Path": Allusion and Renovated Subjectivity in Women's PoetryChapter 5: "New Wine in Old Bottles": Classical Poems by Women Writers in the New Media at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Product details

• Authors: YANG, Haihong Yang
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9781498537865
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3786-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Poetry, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Women, POETRY / Asian / Chinese, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Asian History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women & girls