Gendered Persona and Poetic Voice: The Abandoned Woman in Early Chinese Song Lyrics

ISBN-13: 9780739107126 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 220 str.

Maija Bell Samei

Opis

Gendered Persona and Poetic Voice considers the effects on poetic voice of a conventional feminine persona, the abandoned woman, in early Chinese song lyric (ci) poems. The author reads the literary cross-dressing and ventriloquism of these mostly male-authored poems in light of the highly indeterminate Chinese poetic language. This study of persona and poetic voice will benefit scholars of lyric poetry in any language.