Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China
A Dialogic Engagement
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Asian, China, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&
| Author: | Haihong Yang | ISBN: | 9781498537872 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books | Publication: | May 24, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Haihong Yang |
| ISBN: | 9781498537872 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books |
| Publication: | May 24, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Lexington Books |
| Language: | English |
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns. The author also investigates the interactions between women’s poetic creations and existing male scholars' discourses and probes how these interactions generated innovative self-identities and renovations in poetic forms and aesthetics.
This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns. The author also investigates the interactions between women’s poetic creations and existing male scholars' discourses and probes how these interactions generated innovative self-identities and renovations in poetic forms and aesthetics.
