To Leave or Not to Leave
The Chu Ci 楚辭 (Verses of Chu) as Response to the Shi Jing 詩經 (Classic of Odes)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20380641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Hunter (0000-0002-0307-9127, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Pages | 111-146 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Early China (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-5028 • E-ISSN: 2325-2324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/eac.2019.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2949665974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
Contra the consensus view of the Shi jing 詩經 (Classic of Odes) and Chu ci 楚辭 (Verses of Chu) as the products of two distinct literary cultures, one northern and one southern, this article argues on the basis of intertextual analysis that the Chu ci developed in direct response to the Shi jing . The foremost poem in the anthology, the “Li sao” 離騷 (Parting's Sorrow) emerges as a metadiscursive journey through various Shi jing archetypes, the goal of which is to authorize its hero to say farewell to his ruler and homeland—a possibility denied by Shi jing poetics. A final section explores the relationship between the oppositional poetics of the “Li sao” and the rest of the Chu ci . The article concludes with some reflections on the limitations of the north–south model for historians of early Chinese literature
Archaeology · Archetype · Art · China · Chinese literature · HERO · Homeland · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Ruler · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy
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Early Chinese literature, beginnings through Western Han
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The Quest for a Classic
Shi Jing Songs as Performance Texts
Seven Stimuli for the Prince
The Five "Confucian" Classics
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Defining Chu
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |