Urban Resonance: Intertexuality Between Dong-Po’s Ci Lyrics and Hangzhou City in Northern Song
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Ay, Chia-Wen
Abstract
Cities and genres are always mutually defined. However, social and cultural contexts of literary works are often neglected in Chinese literature studies in Taiwan, as scholars shed more lights on author studies and text analysis. For the genre ci, the importance of social contexts outweighs those in other genres, since ci is mainly written for entertainments, which is closely bonded with society and culture. As a result, I intend to focus on the interactions between Hangzhou the city and ci the genre to investigate how this urban genre communicates with the most prosperous city in Northern Song. Hangzhou is the very city where Dong-Po started to compose ci consistently and frequently. In addition, it is also the city he had governed twice in his lifetime. During the fifteen years of interval between the two reigns in Hangzhou, Dong-Po experienced so many twists in his life; even a narrow escape from death. The works he composed in the early period and the latter one also show great differences. This is mainly because of the changes of Dong-Po’s own perspectives. However, there are also other factors. In order to figure out how Hangzhou city and ci intertexaulize with each other, I first deal with the city itself in Northern Song; then I research through Hangzhou ci anterior to Dong-Po’s, seeing if there exists a transitional writing process. After that, I compare Dong-Po’s former and latter ci works, and his Hangzhou poetry and Hangzhou ci lyrics to see what resulted in the differences other than his change of perspectives and the particularities of genres. In the last part, I investigate through the similarities in these two periods of Hangzhou ci, trying to find out the interwoven intertexuality between Hangzhou and Dong-Po’s ci lyrics. Through the research, I hope to deconstruct the traditional periodic categories of Dong-Po’s ci, attempting to make regional factor a new categorization.
Subjects
Hangzhou
Dong-Po ci
city, genre
interextuality
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-105-R02121002-1.pdf
Size
23.54 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):6cf02ed0b3e8d3e129bcd5b07097f45a