The Social Circulation of Poetry in the Mid-northern Song: Emotional Energy And Literati Self-cultivation

by Hawes, Colin S. C.

• ISBN13: 9780791464724
• ISBN10: 0791464725
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Explores how literati of China's mid-Northern Song period developed a social and therapeutic tradition in poetry. Includes a number of translations of the witty poems of the period.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Poetry and Energy Circulation	1	(10)
Chapter One Poetry as Political and Social Criticism	11	(20)
Chapter Two Poetry as a Game	31	(20)
Chapter Three Poetry and Relationship Building	51	(28)
Chapter Four Poetry as Therapy	79	(28)
Chapter Five Poems Promoting Ancient Culture	107	(20)
Chapter Six Poetry as Humanization of Nature	127	(26)
Conclusion	153	(4)
Notes	157	(42)
Glossary	199	(4)
Bibliography	203	(8)
Index	211