Du Fu Transforms - Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse

Lucas Bender considers Du Fu's pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding over the last millennium. Du Fu anticipated important philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and perduring paradigm of poetry's relationship to ethics.

About the author

Lucas Rambo Bender is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University.

Summary

Lucas Bender considers Du Fu’s pivotal role in the transformation of Chinese poetic understanding over the last millennium. Du Fu anticipated important philosophical transitions from the late-medieval into the early-modern period and laid the template for a new and perduring paradigm of poetry’s relationship to ethics.

Product details

• Authors: Lucas Rambo Bender
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2022
• EAN: 9780674260177
• ISBN: 978-0-674-26017-7
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 239 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 712 g
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies