{"product_id":"the-chinese-lyric-sequence-joseph-r-allen-9781621964780","title":"The Chinese Lyric Sequence: Poems, Paintings, Anthologies","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe approach of this study is essentially a form of structural, or perhaps \"constructural,\" semiotics; it examines what holds the literary text together in the face of its propensity to unravel. Specifically, it looks at a nearly invisible Chinese literary form in a comparative perspective by bringing one type of artifactuality (academic inquiry in English) to bear on a very different sort (Chinese lyricism), thereby illuminating the dynamics of the latter in the cross-light of the former. This is in no way a dismissal of indigenous, culturally intimate ways of knowing the works, nor is it a denial of the cross-current of contradiction and divergence that is always working against the form, always preventing a final interpretation. The aim of this study is to find a middle ground where this methodological cross-light will show the aesthetic whole, along with its inherent disruptions, as a construction that fits patterns of meaning that are culturally and historically bound, even if unstated: the Chinese lyric sequence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important book for scholars studying Chinese literature, comparative literature, world literature, and poetry-painting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph R. Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1621964787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781621964780\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambria Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d","brand":"Joseph R. Allen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44126735499519,"sku":"9781621964780","price":124.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d64d27eb-41c1-4aab-aac1-883174d65ffb.jpg?v=1687449865","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-chinese-lyric-sequence-joseph-r-allen-9781621964780","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}