Author: Graham Sanders
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. “Poetic competence” is demonstrated in these narratives through a person’s ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which sets forth a representation of the conditions of a poem’s production, performance, and reception. These narratives are not so much faithful historical records as ideal accounts of the operation of poetry. Such stories both fulfill and deny wishes for poetry and for the self; it is these wishes that merit our careful attention. As traced in Words Well Put, the vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. By the seventh century, calculation, passion, and wit had converged to produce a multivalent concept of competence as a repertoire of competencies to use as the occasion demanded. This book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity.
Words Well Put
Author: Graham Sanders
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. “Poetic competence” is demonstrated in these narratives through a person’s ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which sets forth a representation of the conditions of a poem’s production, performance, and reception. These narratives are not so much faithful historical records as ideal accounts of the operation of poetry. Such stories both fulfill and deny wishes for poetry and for the self; it is these wishes that merit our careful attention. As traced in Words Well Put, the vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. By the seventh century, calculation, passion, and wit had converged to produce a multivalent concept of competence as a repertoire of competencies to use as the occasion demanded. This book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their composition and performance. “Poetic competence” is demonstrated in these narratives through a person’s ability to influence the attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative, which sets forth a representation of the conditions of a poem’s production, performance, and reception. These narratives are not so much faithful historical records as ideal accounts of the operation of poetry. Such stories both fulfill and deny wishes for poetry and for the self; it is these wishes that merit our careful attention. As traced in Words Well Put, the vision of poetic competence evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of spontaneity. By the seventh century, calculation, passion, and wit had converged to produce a multivalent concept of competence as a repertoire of competencies to use as the occasion demanded. This book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity.
Treason detected, in an answer to that traiterous and malicious libel [by F. Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester], entitled, English Advice to the Freeholders of England, etc. [By Daniel Defoe.]
Author: England
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Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Pages : 50
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The entire works of John Bunyan, ed. by H. Stebbing
Author: John Bunyan
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The Freemason's Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Pages : 404
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The Works of that Eminent Servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan
Author: John Bunyan
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Shakespeare a Reprint of His Collected Works as Put Forth in 1623
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Languages : en
Pages : 284
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My God and I
Author: Lewis B. Smedes
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802822130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In his moving spiritual memoir, finished shortly before his death on December19, 2002, Lewis Smedes, beloved teacher and author of such best-selling booksas Forgive and Forget, takes readers through his own lifelong walk with God.
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802822130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In his moving spiritual memoir, finished shortly before his death on December19, 2002, Lewis Smedes, beloved teacher and author of such best-selling booksas Forgive and Forget, takes readers through his own lifelong walk with God.
Transgressive Typologies
Author: Doran Doran
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries—including Wu Zhao, the Taiping and Anle princesses, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan’er—though quite prominent in the Chinese cultural tradition, remain elusive and often misunderstood or essentialized throughout history. Transgressive Typologies utilizes a new, multidisciplinary approach to understand how these figures’ historical identities are constructed in the mainstream secular literary-historical tradition and to analyze the points of view that inform these constructions. Using close readings and rereadings of primary texts written in medieval China through later imperial times, this study elucidates narrative typologies and motifs associated with these women to explore how their power is rhetorically framed, gendered, and ultimately deemed transgressive. Rebecca Doran offers a new understanding of major female figures of the Tang era within their literary-historical contexts, and delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684170877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The exceptionally powerful Chinese women leaders of the late seventh and early eighth centuries—including Wu Zhao, the Taiping and Anle princesses, Empress Wei, and Shangguan Wan’er—though quite prominent in the Chinese cultural tradition, remain elusive and often misunderstood or essentialized throughout history. Transgressive Typologies utilizes a new, multidisciplinary approach to understand how these figures’ historical identities are constructed in the mainstream secular literary-historical tradition and to analyze the points of view that inform these constructions. Using close readings and rereadings of primary texts written in medieval China through later imperial times, this study elucidates narrative typologies and motifs associated with these women to explore how their power is rhetorically framed, gendered, and ultimately deemed transgressive. Rebecca Doran offers a new understanding of major female figures of the Tang era within their literary-historical contexts, and delves into critical questions about the relationship between Chinese historiography, reception-history, and the process of image-making and cultural construction.
The Law Unsealed, Or, a Practical Exposition of the Ten Commandments. With a Resolution of Several Momentous Questions and Cases of Conscience
Author: James Durham
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Littell's Living Age
Author: Eliakim Littell
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Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Languages : en
Pages : 842
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