00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613785816 Buklod 20230720085028.0 m q i ta 230720t20182018mau rb |001 0|eng c 9780674983823 0674983823 (iLib)UPD-00524275039 UtOrBLW DAC rda eng chi DMLUC PL 2314.5 S83 2018 Swartz, Wendy 1972- author. Reading philosophy, writing poetry intertextual modes of making meaning in early medieval China Wendy Swartz. Cambridge, Massachusetts Published by the Harvard University Asia Center 2018. ©2018 xii, 304 pages 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series III. Includes bibliographical references and index. In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in which such major philosophical classics as Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Classic of Changes featured prominently. Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry examines how these writers understood and manipulated a shared intellectual lexicon to produce meaning. Focusing on works by some of the most important and innovative poets of the period, this book explores intertextuality―the transference, adaptation, or rewriting of signs―as a mode of reading and a condition of writing. It illuminates how a text can be seen in its full range of signifying potential within the early medieval constellation of textual connections and cultural signs. If culture is that which connects its members past, present, and future, then the past becomes an inherited and continually replenished repository of cultural patterns and signs with which the literati maintains an organic and constantly negotiated relationship of give and take. Wendy Swartz explores how early medieval writers in China developed a distinctive mosaic of ways to participate in their cultural heritage by weaving textual strands from a shared and expanding store of literary resources into new patterns and configurations.--Provided by publisher. Chinese poetry History and criticism. 220-589. Chinese literature Philosophy. Intertextuality. Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series III. Book FO UPD DAC PL 2314.5 S83 2018 Book