{"product_id":"the-chinese-lyric-sequence-poems-paintings-anthologies-9781621964780","title":"The Chinese Lyric Sequence: Poems, Paintings, Anthologies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph R. Allen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cambria Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cambria Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Chinese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46455578460311,"sku":"9781621964780","price":11408.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781621964780.webp?v=1769175433","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-chinese-lyric-sequence-poems-paintings-anthologies-9781621964780","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}