Wendy Swartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2954439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wendy Swartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wendy |
| FAMILY NAME | Swartz |
| SIGNATURE | SWARTZ W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A case for enhanced collaboration between experts and diplomats in the United Nations to enhance girls’ rights
Gesture and the Movements of Literary Creativity
“That ’tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,and a more dangerous one to the public . . .”—Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” (1711)In his work of meta-literature, “Rhapsody on Literature,” Lu Ji (261–303) expounds his theories on the creative act. The rhapsody lays out the entire writing process, from reading, assimilation, and imagination or mnemonic recall to writing and its host of challenges, raising thorny questions about …
Memory in Medieval China
Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays collected in this volume investigate various aspects of memory in medieval …
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works. First, it traces the history of the current text. The rather serious problems with this text will be, if not soluble, at …
Sites II
This chapter examines sites that were situated in nature (mountains and rivers, temples), modeled after nature (parks and estates), inspired by nature (urban sanctuaries such as private gardens and temples), or defined by their distance from the capital court (roads leading away from the political or cultural center). Writings on these sites commonly treated the themes of exile from the capital, retreat from court life, personal cultivation, or t…
There's No Place Like Home
In his monumental work, “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (“Shanju fu”), Xie Lingyun describes in detail the construction of his home in a setting that would constitute his style of reclusion and poetry, “mountains and rivers” (shanshui). This articles examines how Xie Lingyun built his home through architecture and discourse, and how shaping a home may bear upon the characterization of a particular brand of reclusion in early medieval Chin…
Early Medieval China
Revisiting the Scene of the Party
The Lanting (sometimes rendered as “Orchid Pavilion”) gathering in 353 is one of the most famous literati parties in Chinese history. 1 This gathering inspired the celebrated preface written by the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi 王羲之 (303–361), another preface by the poet Sun Chuo 孫綽 (314–371), and forty-one poems composed by some of the most intellectually active men of the day. 2 The poems are not often studied since they have long been overshado…
Naturalness in Xie Lingyun’s Poetic Works
Wendy Swartz examines literary naturalness ( ziran 自然) in Xie Lingyun’s poetic works from two vantage points. First, surveying how Southern Dynasties critics applied the term ziran to Xie, she demonstrates the need to historicize the term, whose significations shifted dramatically over time. Xie’s poetic works not only were “natural” according to the standards and expectations of his time but also followed a certain natural order: his representat…
Reading Tao Yuanming
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Reading Tao Yuanming
Naturalness in Xie Lingyun’s Poetic Works
Wendy Swartz examines literary naturalness ( ziran 自然) in Xie Lingyun’s poetic works from two vantage points. First, surveying how Southern Dynasties critics applied the term ziran to Xie, she demonstrates the need to historicize the term, whose significations shifted dramatically over time. Xie’s poetic works not only were “natural” according to the standards and expectations of his time but also followed a certain natural order: his representat…
Revisiting the Scene of the Party
The Lanting (sometimes rendered as “Orchid Pavilion”) gathering in 353 is one of the most famous literati parties in Chinese history. 1 This gathering inspired the celebrated preface written by the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi 王羲之 (303–361), another preface by the poet Sun Chuo 孫綽 (314–371), and forty-one poems composed by some of the most intellectually active men of the day. 2 The poems are not often studied since they have long been overshado…
Early Medieval China
There's No Place Like Home
In his monumental work, “Rhapsody on Dwelling in the Mountains” (“Shanju fu”), Xie Lingyun describes in detail the construction of his home in a setting that would constitute his style of reclusion and poetry, “mountains and rivers” (shanshui). This articles examines how Xie Lingyun built his home through architecture and discourse, and how shaping a home may bear upon the characterization of a particular brand of reclusion in early medieval Chin…
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
The poetry of Ruan Ji has been previously translated several times, with one fully scholarly translation of both the poetry and the Fu (poetic expositions). The present translation not only provides a facing page critical Chinese text, it addresses two problems that have been ignored or not adequately treated in earlier works. First, it traces the history of the current text. The rather serious problems with this text will be, if not soluble, at …
Sites II
This chapter examines sites that were situated in nature (mountains and rivers, temples), modeled after nature (parks and estates), inspired by nature (urban sanctuaries such as private gardens and temples), or defined by their distance from the capital court (roads leading away from the political or cultural center). Writings on these sites commonly treated the themes of exile from the capital, retreat from court life, personal cultivation, or t…
Memory in Medieval China
Memory is not an inert container but a dynamic process. It can be structured by ritual, constrained by textual genre, and shaped by communities’ expectations and reception. Urging a particular view of the past on readers is a complex rhetorical act. The collective reception of portrayals of the past often carries weighty implications for the present and future. The essays collected in this volume investigate various aspects of memory in medieval …
Gesture and the Movements of Literary Creativity
“That ’tis as great a fault to judge ill, as to write ill,and a more dangerous one to the public . . .”—Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Criticism” (1711)In his work of meta-literature, “Rhapsody on Literature,” Lu Ji (261–303) expounds his theories on the creative act. The rhapsody lays out the entire writing process, from reading, assimilation, and imagination or mnemonic recall to writing and its host of challenges, raising thorny questions about …
A case for enhanced collaboration between experts and diplomats in the United Nations to enhance girls’ rights
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