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Sound and Sight

Name: Sound and Sight
Brand: Stanford University Press
SKU: 04718798
Price: 74.19 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Meow Hui Goh
ISBN: 9780804768597

Meow Hui Goh

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04718798

Publishers Stanford University Press, August 2010

This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of "shengse"... Full description

Libristo code: 04718798

182 b

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This is the first book to examine Chinese poetry and courtier culture using the concept of "shengse"--sound and sight--which connotes "sensual pleasure." 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 "sound and rhymes," 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 question: 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 "sound and sight" 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.