TY  - BOOK
T1  - Reading philosophy, writing poetry intertextual modes of making meaning in early medieval China
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series
A1  - Swartz, Wendy 1972-
LA  - English
LA  - Chinese
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Published by the Harvard University Asia Center
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ds.mainlib.upd.edu.ph/Record/UP-99796217613785816
AB  - 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. 
OP  - 304
CN  - PL 2314.5 S83 2018
SN  - 9780674983823
SN  - 0674983823
KW  - Chinese poetry : History and criticism. : 220-589.
KW  - Chinese literature : Philosophy.
KW  - Intertextuality.
ER  -