Considering the end: mortality in early medieval Chinese poetic representation (electronic resource)
Series: Sinica Leidensia ; v. 107.Publication details: Leiden ; Brill, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xii, 240 p.)ISBN: 9789004229020 ; 9789004229020 ; 9004229027 Subject(s): Chinese poetry | Mortality in literature | Death in literatureDDC classification: 895.11209 LOC classification: PL2313 | .C36 2012Online resources: Click here to access online| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Timeline; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: As the End Approaches; 1. Wang Yi on Integrity and Loyalty; 2. A Young Lady on Yellow Pongee Silk; 3. Ruan Ji on Apocalypse; 4. Tao Qian on His Deathbed; 5. Xie Lingyun on Awakenin; 6. Composed on the Verge of Unnatural Death; 7. Epilogue: The Fisherman in Reclusion; Works Cited; Index.
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This book focuses on the representation of human mortality in medieval Chinese literature. This theme is observed and reconstructed through analysis of the work of eminent writers of the period, texts that have never been examined from an eschatological perspective.
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