Screen LibraryWild geese returning : Chinese reversible poems /
"The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical...
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Hong Kong : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: |
English Chinese Niger-Kordofanian French |
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Calligrams
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| Summary: |
"The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the "flight of wild geese." These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michèle Métail describes reversible poems as "a singular adventure at the edg |
| Item Description: |
Critical anthology. Translation of: Le vol des oies sauvages. "Wild Geese Returning is the first English translation of the French original title "Le Vol des Oies Sauvages." The original French edition contains poetry in the original Chinese language. The English translation also includes poetry in the original Chinese language" -- Publisher's comment. |
| Carrier Form: | xlvii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-263). |
| ISBN: |
9789629968007 (paperback) : 9629968002 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | PL2307 |
| CLC: | I207.2 |
| Call Number: | I207.2/M587 |
| Contents: | A certain predisposition in the language -- Origins of the reversible poem -- Period of the Six Dynasties (3rd to 6th centuries) -- Tang Dynasty (618-907) -- Song Dynasty (960-1279) : Northern Song (960-1127) & Southern Song (1127-1279) -- Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) -- Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) -- Return to the West -- Appendix. The ways of reading Su Hui's poem. |