{"product_id":"the-matrix-of-lyric-transformation-zong-qi-cai-9780892641116","title":"The Matrix of Lyric Transformation: Poetic Modes and Self-Presentation in Early Chinese Pentasyllabic Poetry Volume 75","description":"Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties, traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various comprehensive anthologies of it. \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix of Lyric Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic, and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a discussion of the \u003ci\u003eYüeh-fu\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eku-shih\u003c\/i\u003e genres of the Han period, Cai Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of \u003ci\u003emodes \u003c\/i\u003efrom Western literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes developed in literati circles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zong-Qi Cai,Zong-Qu Cai\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0892641118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892641116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e U of M Center for Chinese Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.32w x 0.92d","brand":"Zong-Qi Cai","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065230635263,"sku":"9780892641116","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_85d057ee-4c62-4c6e-949c-3aed535e83d1.jpg?v=1768673839","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-matrix-of-lyric-transformation-zong-qi-cai-9780892641116","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}