The Shaman and the Heresiarch / SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture (ePub)
A New Interpretation of the Li sao
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Li sao (also known as Encountering Sorrow), attributed to the poet-statesman Qu Yuan (4th-3rd century BCE), is one of the cornerstones of the Chinese poetic tradition. It has long been studied as China's first extended allegory in poetic form, yet most...
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The Li sao (also known as Encountering Sorrow), attributed to the poet-statesman Qu Yuan (4th-3rd century BCE), is one of the cornerstones of the Chinese poetic tradition. It has long been studied as China's first extended allegory in poetic form, yet most scholars agree that there is very little in the two-thousand-year-old tradition of commentary on it that convincingly explains its supernatural flights, its complex floral imagery, or the gender ambiguity of its primary poetic persona. The Shaman and the Heresiarch is the first book-length study of the Li sao in English, offering new translations of both the Li sao and the Nine Songs. The book traces the shortcomings of the earliest extant commentary on those texts, that of Wang Yi, back to the quasi-divinatory methods of the highly politicized tradition of Chinese classical hermeneutics in general, and the political machinations of a Han dynasty empress dowager in particular. It also offers an entirely new interpretation of the Li sao, one based not on Qu Yuan hagiography but on what late Warring States period artifacts and texts, including recently unearthed texts, teach us about the cultural context that produced the poem. In that light we see in the Li sao not only a reflection of the era of the great classical Chinese philosophers, but also the breakdown of the political-religious order of the ancient state of Chu.
Autoren-Porträt von Gopal Sukhu
Gopal Sukhu is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at Queens College, City University of New York, and teaches Classical Chinese at Columbia University.
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- Autor: Gopal Sukhu
- 2012, 277 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: State University of New York Press
- ISBN-10: 143844284X
- ISBN-13: 9781438442846
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.08.2012
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