A Flavor All Its Own

Some Theoretical Considerations on Sanqu Songs as Mixed-Register Literature

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ID13087751
AuthorsPatricia Sieber (0000-0001-9631-1126, The Ohio State University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume8
Issue1
Pages203-235
Publication date2021-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Chinese Literature and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2329-0056 • E-ISSN: 2329-0048
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/23290048-8898687
OpenAlexW3169078533
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited18

This article proposes a new typology of the sanqu corpus. The discussion analyzes a cross section of sanqu songs in terms of how they engaged with language registers, on the one hand, and how they recontextualized existing motifs and media, on the other. Specifically, the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chinese literature, history, and religion. The article suggests that everyday songs and court-oriented songs prized the aesthetic of immediacy, while certain mixed-register songs more explicitly exhibited differently oriented signs of hypermediacy

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Immediacy · Linguistics · Literature · Register (sociolinguistics · Typology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy

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