Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
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Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
978-90-04-16382-9
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Conventions
List of illustrations
Chapter One
Avant-garde Poetry from China:
text, context and metatext
1. What Went Before
2. The Unofficial Poetry Scene and the Avant-Garde
3. Context: Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
4. Text: From Elevated to Earthly and from What to How
5. Metatext: Images of Poetry and Poethood
6. The Case Studies, and What This Book Wants to Do
Chapter Two
True Disbelief:
Han Dong
1. The Rejection of Obscure Poetry
2. An Original Poetics
Chapter Three
Thanatography and the Poetic Voice:
Haizi
1. Thanatography
2. The Poetic Voice
Chapter Four
Exile:
Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin and Bei Dao
1. Poets in Exile
2. Exile in Poetry
Chapter Five
Mind over Matter, Matter over Mind:
Xi Chuan
1. Spirituality versus Materialism and the Barbarians
2. A Different Voice: Poetry Rising, Poets Falling
3. Words Capturing Images, Images Capturing Words
Chapter Six
Fringe Poetry, but not Prose:
Xi Chuan and Yu Jian
1. A Wonderful Inadequacy of Definitions
2. «Salute» and «File 0»: Poetry or Prose?
3. Fringe Poetry
Chapter Seven
Objectification and the Long-short Line:
Yu Jian
1. Objectification and Subjectification
2. Long Lines and Blanks
Chapter Eight
Narrative Rhythm, Sound and Sense:
Sun Wenbo
1. Content Bias
2. «The Program»: Content and Plot
3. «The Program»: Form
4. Narrativity and Its Context
Chapter Nine
The Lower Body:
Yin Lichuan and Shen Haobo
1. Lower Body Poetry
2. A Poetic Lineage
Chapter Ten
Not at Face Value:
Xi Chuan’s Explicit Poetics
1. Explanations, Issues and Alchemy
2. A Bigger Picture
Chapter Eleven
Desecrations?
Han Dong’s and Yu Jian’s Explicit Poetics
1. Poethood According to Han Dong and Yu Jian
2. Metatextual Styles
Chapter Twelve
What Was All the Fuss About?
The Popular-Intellectual Polemic
1. What Were the Issues?
Appendix: A Chronological Bibliography
Chapter Thirteen
More Than Writing, as We Speak:
Yan Jun
1. Three-Dimensional Performance
2. Writing, Event Culture and Poetry Opening Up
Works Cited
Index and Glossary
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