The Self's Perfect Mirror: Poetry as Autobiography

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. I. Theoretical Background
5. Profound Learning, Personal Knowledge, and Poetic Vision 3
6. Some Reflections on Chinese Poetic Language and Its Relation to Chinese Cosmology 32
7. The Paradox of Poetics and the Poetics of Paradox 49
8. The Self's Perfect Mirror: Poetry as Autobiography 71
9. II. Concepts and Contexts
10. Description of Landscape in Early Six Dynasties Poetry 105
11. The Decline and Revival of Feng-ku (Wind and Bone): On the Changing Poetic Styles from the Chien-an Era through the High T'ang Period 130
12. Verses from on High: The Ascent of T'ai Shan 167
13. The Nature of Narrative in T'ang Poetry 217
14. III. Forms and Genres
15. The Development of Han and Wei Yueh-fu as a High Literary Genre 255
16. The Legacy of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties Yiiehju Tradition and Its Further Development in T'ang Poetry 287
17. The Nature of the Quatrain from the Late Han to the High T'ang 296
18. The Aesthetics of Regulated Verse 332
19. Contributors 387
20. Index 391
21. Studies on China 407
22. Backmatter 409