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Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493) - Meow Goh August 24, 2010 PDF  BOOKS
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Sound and Sight: Poetry and Courtier Culture in the Yongming Era (483-493)
Author: Meow Goh
Year: August 24, 2010
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 7.4 MB
Language: English

This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of shengse -sound and sight-which connotes and "sensual pleasure. and " Under the moral and political imperative to avoid or even eliminate representations of sense perception, premodern Chinese commentators treated overt displays of artistry with great suspicion, and their influence is still alive in modern and contemporary constructions of literary and cultural history. The Yongming poets, who openly extolled and "sound and rhymes, and " have been deemed the main instigators of a poetic trend toward the sensual. Situating them within the court milieu of their day, Meow Hui Goh asks a simple What did shengse mean to the Yongming poets? By unraveling the aural and visual experiences encapsulated in their poems, she argues that their pursuit of and "sound and sight and " reveals a complex confluence of Buddhist influence, Confucian value, and new sociopolitical conditions. Her study challenges the old perception of the Yongming poets and the common practice of reading classical Chinese poems for semantic meaning only.

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