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Just a Song - Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Just a Song - Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (Hardcover)
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
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"Song Lyric," ci, remains one of the most loved forms of Chinese
poetry. From the early eleventh century through the first quarter
of the twelfth century, song lyric evolved from an impromptu
contribution in a performance practice to a full literary genre, in
which the text might be read more often than performed. Young women
singers, either indentured or private entrepreneurs, were at the
heart of song practice throughout the period; the authors of the
lyrics were notionally mostly male. A strange gender dynamic arose,
in which men often wrote in the voice of a woman and her imagined
feelings, then appropriated that sensibility for themselves. As an
essential part of becoming literature, a history was constructed
for the new genre. At the same time the genre claimed a new set of
aesthetic values to radically distinguish it from older "Classical
Poetry," shi. In a world that was either pragmatic or moralizing
(or both), song lyric was a discourse of sensibility, which
literally gave a beautiful voice to everything that seemed
increasingly to be disappearing in the new Song dynasty world of
righteousness and public advancement.
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