Studies in Chinese Literary GenresCyril Birch This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Its Generic Significance | 8 |
The Quest of the Goddess | 42 |
Yüehfu Poetry | 69 |
Allusion in the Poetry of Tao Chien | 108 |
Some Literary Qualities of the Lyric | 133 |
A Modern View | 154 |
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