The Chinese Lyric Sequence: Poems, Paintings, Anthologies

The approach of this study is essentially a form of structural, or perhaps “constructural,” semiotics; it examines what holds the literary text together in the face of its propensity to unravel. Specifically, it looks at a nearly invisible Chinese literary form in a comparative perspective by bringing one type of artifactuality (academic inquiry in English) to bear on a very different sort (Chinese lyricism), thereby illuminating the dynamics of the latter in the cross-light of the former. ...