Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics by Nicholas Morrow Williams
Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics
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Nicholas Morrow Williams
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Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics

Sinica Leidensia

Nicholas Morrow Williams

302 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444-505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of "imitation poetry," the popular genre...

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