Nancy M Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 231165 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nancy M Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nancy M |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS N M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2852-7467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Seidenreiher über allen Gipfeln: Gedichte; Die Erde mein Kissen, der Himmel meine Decke: Li Bai
The two books under review are a treat: two labors of love by eminent Sinologists from Germany, already prolific scholars on many other topics, offering us delectable translations of their favorite
The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics: A Study of the "Shijing" and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis
Translating the Esoteric: On the Chinese Translation and Commentary of the Mahāvairocana sūtra, with Special Reference to the Reinterpretation of Kalpa
The Mahāvairocana sūtra was translated into Chinese by the Indian monk Śubhakarasiṃha 善無畏 (637-735) and the Chinese monk Yixing 一行 (683-727), and Yixing also composed an elaborate commentary based on the teachings of Śubhakarasiṃha. Their efforts to introduce to China this key source for esoteric Buddhist doctrine and ritual offer us a remarkable case study of Buddhological translation. The two translators respond with particular flair to the per…
Ethical Veganism as Quiet Resistance
In this article, I will argue that ethical veganism can be understood as a form of quietism, as a quiet retreat from a world burdened by human moral failings and animal suffering. I will also show how this retreat, although quiet in nature, is both a legitimate and valuable form of genuine resistance to animal oppression. Positing ethical veganism as a form of sociopolitical resistance to animal exploitation is not new, but thinking of it as a qu…
A Constant Cascade: Ancient and Medieval Verse on the Four Waterways
The literary representation of China's great rivers has repeatedly been transformed by changes in religious belief and ritual. In the Book of Songs, rivers figure primarily as political boundaries and figures of separation. Though they may already play a role in religious rites, their geographical identity is paramount. However, in the "Nine Songs" of the Elegies of Chu, they appear in a new guise as sites of divine encounter and shamanistic flig…
Ian Dunlop and the Yirrkala Film Project
Kūkai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: On his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)
The religious and philosophical import of Kūkai’s 空海 (774–835) writings has sometimes distracted attention away from their formal and rhetorical properties, even though these are in fact integral to their messages. This article examines Kūkai’s achievement in the genre of the ‘prayer text’ (Ch. yuanwen 願文; J. ganmon; K. wonmun), which already had a convoluted history throughout Asia in the preceding centuries. Originating at the courts of Souther…
A Boundary Is to Cross: Observations on Yolngu Boundaries and Permission
The Yolngu people in Australia&s;s northeastern Arnhem Land regulate access to food and other natural resources through strategies that derive their jural status from the Yolngu system of land ownership. Individuals call on a number of principles, all ultimately rooted in myth, to indicate their social identity, and these principles entail rights of access to resources and control over access. The rights are expressed in terms of correlated relig…
Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers
Tropes of entanglement and strange loops in the "Nine Avowals" of the Chuci
The literary form and rhetorical structure of ancient Chinese poems have not been sufficiently studied. The "Jiu zhang" 九章 (Nine Avowals) attributed to Qu Yuan 屈原 contain distinctive formal features which are highly suggestive for interpretations of Qu Yuan's life and works. At the level of rhetoric, the protagonist frequently describes his own mental state using metaphors of knots and entanglement. At the level of form, the internal structure of…
Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture. By Ding Xiang Warner
Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture. By Ding Xiang Warner. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 113. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. 225 + xii. €103, $134
Angelo Zottoli's Cursus litteraturæ sinicæ as Propaedeutic to Chinese Classical Tradition
One of the most impressive landmarks in Western Sinology must be the Cursus litteraturæ sinicæ by Italian Jesuit Angelo Zottoli (1826–1902). This four-thousand page work, presented as a Latin introduction to the written Chinese language, is actually a synoptic guide to the Chinese tradition, encompassing a vast range of texts from the Shijing 詩經 (Book of Songs) to Qing-era examination essays, poetry, and letters. The Cursus was regarded even in i…
Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics
Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444–505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of “imitation poetry,” the popular genre of the Six Dynasties era, Jiang’s work can be seen as the culmination of central trends in Six Dynasties poetry. His own life experiences are encoded in his poetry through an array of literary impersona…
Literary Controversy at the Liang Court Revisited
The literary thought of the Liang 梁 dynasty (502–557) has occasioned considerable debate in recent years. The fulcrum of discussion in Chinese and Western scholarly circles is a half-century-old article in which Zhou Xunchu 周勛初 presented a tripartite classification for Liang literary thought. In 2007, Tian Xiaofei argued that Zhou had overstated the degree of disagreement at the Liang court, and claimed instead that Liang writers agreed on most l…
Li Bai’s “Rhapsody on the Hall of Light”: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order
Li Bai’s “Rhapsody on the Hall of Light” offers a grand tour and exuberant depiction of the Mingtang, an edifice central to traditional theories of government and ritual. The poem has often been dismissed as belonging to the poet’s juvenilia, but more likely reflects the ambition and self-confidence of his youthful prime. It has also been viewed with suspicion because of the Mingtang’s associations with the interregnum of Empress Wu, but this on…
Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J.C. Choo, 2014
The Metaphysical Lyric of the Six Dynasties
In the third and fourth centuries there flourished in China a literary tradition that integrated abstruse philosophizing into pentasyllabic verse: xuanyan shi or the “metaphysical lyric.” Xuanyan verse was mostly ignored in the great wave of literary critique and classification during the succeeding centuries, and much has been lost, but by using a variety of sources, ranging from the Shishuo xinyu to later imitations, we can ascertain its featur…
Pan Yue's "Study of a Widow" and Its Predecessors
This article is a case study in the intertextuality of early medieval Chinese poetry, where the imitation of and allusion to earlier works is the focus of the author’s craft and the catalyst of literature’s emotional power. The study proceeds by analyzing the intertextual relation between a late third-century fu 賦 about a widow and its early third-century predecessors, showing how they are linked both by generic constraints and direct allusion an…
‘She was the first one…’: Phyllis Kaberry in the East Kimberley
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever exact, even in the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not …
The Half-Life of Half-Rhyme
Rhyme is such a constant feature in classical Chinese poetry that it is easily taken for granted. Before the compilation of rhyme books, there were no accepted standards for rhyming practice. Poets took advantage of this freedom to experiment with different rhyming patterns, such as imperfect rhymes between similar, but not identical, finals. In this paper the term "half-rhyme" is used to describe individual rhyme sequences which are irregular gi…
Affected Ignorance And Animal Suffering: Why Our Failure To Debate Factory Farming Puts Us At Moral Risk
Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines
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Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas
Book Review| March 01 2000 Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas. By Pierce, John B.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1998. Pp. Xxxviii + 213. $55.00 0-7735-1682-4. Nicholas M. Williams Nicholas M. Williams Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (200…
Democracy and Montessori Education
Eating Blake, or an Essay on Taste: "The Case of Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon
Consider the following story: Francis Dolarhyde, having already murdered two families (mother, father, and three children, in each case), adds to his list of crimes a comparatively minor but still chilling act of artistic desecration. Passing himself off as a William Blake scholar investigating the artist's ties to his patron William Butts, Dolarhyde gains access to the archives of the Brooklyn Museum, where, after rendering the attending librari…
Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers
Two Laws: Managing Disputes in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community
Affected Ignorance And Animal Suffering: Why Our Failure To Debate Factory Farming Puts Us At Moral Risk
Ian Dunlop and the Yirrkala Film Project
Democracy and Montessori Education
Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gathers
Additional Kuru Bibliography
The Yolngu and their land: A System of Land Tenure and the Fight for Its Recognition
Diane Barwick 1938-1986
Extreme illness exaggeration in pediatric patients: A variant of Munchausen’s by Proxy
Reported cases of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome in children suggest common psychosocial features for child and family. The possibility is explored that these same features are also present in a subgroup of children with documented, but very mild, illness. Suggestions for the diagnosis and management of this problem are offered, emphasizing a multidisciplinary team approach
Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gathers
Two Laws: Managing Disputes in a Contemporary Aboriginal Community
Eating Blake, or an Essay on Taste: "The Case of Thomas Harris's "Red Dragon
Consider the following story: Francis Dolarhyde, having already murdered two families (mother, father, and three children, in each case), adds to his list of crimes a comparatively minor but still chilling act of artistic desecration. Passing himself off as a William Blake scholar investigating the artist's ties to his patron William Butts, Dolarhyde gains access to the archives of the Brooklyn Museum, where, after rendering the attending librari…
Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas
Book Review| March 01 2000 Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas. By Pierce, John B.. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1998. Pp. Xxxviii + 213. $55.00 0-7735-1682-4. Nicholas M. Williams Nicholas M. Williams Indiana University, Bloomington Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (200…
Democracy and Montessori Education
Disciplining the Savages, Savaging the Disciplines
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Affected Ignorance And Animal Suffering: Why Our Failure To Debate Factory Farming Puts Us At Moral Risk
‘She was the first one…’: Phyllis Kaberry in the East Kimberley
Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixed, lifeless and fragmentary traces. It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever exact, even in the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not …
The Half-Life of Half-Rhyme
Rhyme is such a constant feature in classical Chinese poetry that it is easily taken for granted. Before the compilation of rhyme books, there were no accepted standards for rhyming practice. Poets took advantage of this freedom to experiment with different rhyming patterns, such as imperfect rhymes between similar, but not identical, finals. In this paper the term "half-rhyme" is used to describe individual rhyme sequences which are irregular gi…
The Metaphysical Lyric of the Six Dynasties
In the third and fourth centuries there flourished in China a literary tradition that integrated abstruse philosophizing into pentasyllabic verse: xuanyan shi or the “metaphysical lyric.” Xuanyan verse was mostly ignored in the great wave of literary critique and classification during the succeeding centuries, and much has been lost, but by using a variety of sources, ranging from the Shishuo xinyu to later imitations, we can ascertain its featur…
Pan Yue's "Study of a Widow" and Its Predecessors
This article is a case study in the intertextuality of early medieval Chinese poetry, where the imitation of and allusion to earlier works is the focus of the author’s craft and the catalyst of literature’s emotional power. The study proceeds by analyzing the intertextual relation between a late third-century fu 賦 about a widow and its early third-century predecessors, showing how they are linked both by generic constraints and direct allusion an…
Angelo Zottoli's Cursus litteraturæ sinicæ as Propaedeutic to Chinese Classical Tradition
One of the most impressive landmarks in Western Sinology must be the Cursus litteraturæ sinicæ by Italian Jesuit Angelo Zottoli (1826–1902). This four-thousand page work, presented as a Latin introduction to the written Chinese language, is actually a synoptic guide to the Chinese tradition, encompassing a vast range of texts from the Shijing 詩經 (Book of Songs) to Qing-era examination essays, poetry, and letters. The Cursus was regarded even in i…
Imitations of the Self: Jiang Yan and Chinese Poetics
Imitations of the Self reevaluates the poetry of Jiang Yan (444–505), long underappreciated because of its pervasive reliance on allusion, by emphasizing the self-conscious artistry of imitation. In context of “imitation poetry,” the popular genre of the Six Dynasties era, Jiang’s work can be seen as the culmination of central trends in Six Dynasties poetry. His own life experiences are encoded in his poetry through an array of literary impersona…
Literary Controversy at the Liang Court Revisited
The literary thought of the Liang 梁 dynasty (502–557) has occasioned considerable debate in recent years. The fulcrum of discussion in Chinese and Western scholarly circles is a half-century-old article in which Zhou Xunchu 周勛初 presented a tripartite classification for Liang literary thought. In 2007, Tian Xiaofei argued that Zhou had overstated the degree of disagreement at the Liang court, and claimed instead that Liang writers agreed on most l…
Li Bai’s “Rhapsody on the Hall of Light”: A Singular Vision of Cosmic Order
Li Bai’s “Rhapsody on the Hall of Light” offers a grand tour and exuberant depiction of the Mingtang, an edifice central to traditional theories of government and ritual. The poem has often been dismissed as belonging to the poet’s juvenilia, but more likely reflects the ambition and self-confidence of his youthful prime. It has also been viewed with suspicion because of the Mingtang’s associations with the interregnum of Empress Wu, but this on…
Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook, edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, and Jessey J.C. Choo, 2014
Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture. By Ding Xiang Warner
Transmitting Authority: Wang Tong (ca. 584–617) and the Zhongshuo in Medieval China’s Manuscript Culture. By Ding Xiang Warner. Sinica Leidensia, vol. 113. Leiden: Brill, 2014. Pp. 225 + xii. €103, $134
Tropes of entanglement and strange loops in the "Nine Avowals" of the Chuci
The literary form and rhetorical structure of ancient Chinese poems have not been sufficiently studied. The "Jiu zhang" 九章 (Nine Avowals) attributed to Qu Yuan 屈原 contain distinctive formal features which are highly suggestive for interpretations of Qu Yuan's life and works. At the level of rhetoric, the protagonist frequently describes his own mental state using metaphors of knots and entanglement. At the level of form, the internal structure of…
A Boundary Is to Cross: Observations on Yolngu Boundaries and Permission
The Yolngu people in Australia&s;s northeastern Arnhem Land regulate access to food and other natural resources through strategies that derive their jural status from the Yolngu system of land ownership. Individuals call on a number of principles, all ultimately rooted in myth, to indicate their social identity, and these principles entail rights of access to resources and control over access. The rights are expressed in terms of correlated relig…
Resource Managers: North American and Australian Hunter-Gatherers
Kūkai’s transcultural rhetoric of prayer: On his writings inspired by the Chinese “prayer text” (yuanwen 願文)
The religious and philosophical import of Kūkai’s 空海 (774–835) writings has sometimes distracted attention away from their formal and rhetorical properties, even though these are in fact integral to their messages. This article examines Kūkai’s achievement in the genre of the ‘prayer text’ (Ch. yuanwen 願文; J. ganmon; K. wonmun), which already had a convoluted history throughout Asia in the preceding centuries. Originating at the courts of Souther…
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