New Perspectives on Han, Wei, Six Dynasties Literature. The Chapters on Posing and Offering Poems

Author: Mei Jialing
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: "Imitation" refers to poetic works completed through the methods of "imitation" or "proxy representation"; "Gift Exchange" (or "Gift Exchange Poetry") refers to poems used by scholars to communicate and interact with each other. Since the Han and Wei dynasties, these two types of literature have been the major works created by scholars at the time. The former preserves the trajectory of the progression and transformation of the humanistic world; the latter depicts the individual existence context of the contemporary moment and the multiple relational networks intertwined with it. The various literary characteristics of this period are vividly presented through their formation, development, and interaction. This book takes the "imitation" and "gift exchange" of the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties as the basic material and attempts to propose several new concepts. It not only repositions the misunderstood phenomenon of imitation and proxy representation in literary history but also conducts an in-depth exploration of the gift exchange poetry, which has long been little attended to.