Considering the End : Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation.
Title:
Considering the End : Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation.
Author:
Chan, TImothy Wai Keung.
ISBN:
9789004229020
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Series:
Sinica Leidensia ; v.107
Sinica Leidensia
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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