Owen All Mine!

Happiness, Ownership, and Naming in Eleventh-Century China
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55487-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song Dynasty, writers became preoccupied with the question of whether material things can bring happiness. In a series of essays, All Mine! offers strikingly original readings of major eleventh-century figures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Owen, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. What’s in a Name? The Biography of the Retired Layman Six Ones
2. The Magistrate of Peach Blossom Spring
3. Missing Stones
4. All Mine: The Poetics of Ownership
5. The Stone That Tells Its Name
6. The Bamboo in the Breast and in the Belly
Closure
Further Readings
Sources and Translations
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Owen is James Bryant Conant University Professor Emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His many books include, most recently, Just a Song: Chinese Lyrics from the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries (2019).