• Memory in medieval China : text, ritual, and community
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : monographic
    Title Information: text, ritual, and community
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: SwartzWendy, 1972-
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: CampanyRobert Ford, 1959-
    Place of Publication: Leiden
    Published: Brill;
    Year of Publication: c2018
    Description: viii, 270 p.24 cm. ;
    Series: Sinica leidensia
    Subject: Memory in literature. -
    Subject: Collective memory in literature. -
    Subject: Chinese literature - History and criticism - 221 B.C.-960 A.D. -
    Summary: "Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities' expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readersis a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays collected in this volume investigate various aspects of memory in medieval China (ca. 100-900 CE) as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from history to tomb epitaphs. They illuminate ways in which the memory of individual persons, events, dynasties, and literary styleswas constructed and revised through processes of writing and reading. Contributors include: Sarah M. Allen, Robert Ashmore, Robert Ford Campany, Jack W. Chen, Alexei Ditter,Meow Hui Goh, Christopher M. B. Nugent, Xiaofei Tian, Wendy Swartz, Ping Wang"--
    ISBN: 90-04-36862-0bound
    ISBN: 978-90-04-36862-0bound
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