Many poems in the Chinese tradition come to us embedded in
narratives purporting to tell the circumstances of their
composition and performance. "Poetic competence" is demonstrated in
these narratives through a person's ability to influence the
attitudes and behavior of others with poetic discourse. Such
competence can be apprehended only in the context of a narrative,
which sets forth a representation of the conditions of a poem's
production, performance, and reception. These narratives are not so
much faithful historical records as ideal accounts of the operation
of poetry. Such stories both fulfill and deny wishes for poetry and
for the self; it is these wishes that merit our careful attention.
As traced in "Words Well Put," the vision of poetic competence
evolved for over a millennium from calculated performances of
inherited words to sincere passionate outbursts to displays of
verbal wit combining calculation with the appearance of
spontaneity. By the seventh century, calculation, passion, and wit
had converged to produce a multivalent concept of competence as a
repertoire of competencies to use as the occasion demanded. This
book tells the story of the development of poetic competence to
uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources
and exemplars of that complexity.
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