Emperor Taizong (r. 626-49) of the Tang is remembered as an exemplary ruler. This study addresses that aura of virtuous sovereignty and Taizong's construction of a reputation for moral rulership through his own literary writings - with particular attention to his poetry. The author highlights the relationship between historiography and the literary and rhetorical strategies of sovereignty, contending that, for Taizong, and for the concept of sovereignty in general, politics is inextricable from cultural production. The work focuses on Taizong's literary writings that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic identity through literary stylistics. The author maintains that Taizong's writings may have been self-serving at times, representing strategic attempts to control his self-image in the eyes of his court and empire, but that they also become the ideal image to which his self was normatively bound. This is the paradox at the heart of imperial authorship: Taizong was simultaneously the author of his representation and was authored by his representation; he was both subject and object of his writings.
Jack W. Chen is Assistant Professor of Chinese Poetry and Thought at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The treatise tries to deal with the essence and value of Emperor Taizong's literary writings, "specially those that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic ...
评分The treatise tries to deal with the essence and value of Emperor Taizong's literary writings, "specially those that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic ...
评分The treatise tries to deal with the essence and value of Emperor Taizong's literary writings, "specially those that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic ...
评分The treatise tries to deal with the essence and value of Emperor Taizong's literary writings, "specially those that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic ...
评分The treatise tries to deal with the essence and value of Emperor Taizong's literary writings, "specially those that speak directly to the relationship between cultural form and sovereign power, as well as on the question of how the Tang negotiated dynastic ...
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评分一面是Kantorowicz式的個體/政治之二分,另一面是君主道德約束與一不小心就會誘人入歧途的修辭/文學傳統的博弈。然而過於辭費,如果每碰上一種母題/風格/題材都要從頭追溯一下源流,任何一本書都能被擴充到三倍長吧……四、五、七章後半狹義意義上“文學/詩歌”的比重較大。
评分一面是Kantorowicz式的個體/政治之二分,另一面是君主道德約束與一不小心就會誘人入歧途的修辭/文學傳統的博弈。然而過於辭費,如果每碰上一種母題/風格/題材都要從頭追溯一下源流,任何一本書都能被擴充到三倍長吧……四、五、七章後半狹義意義上“文學/詩歌”的比重較大。
评分一面是Kantorowicz式的個體/政治之二分,另一面是君主道德約束與一不小心就會誘人入歧途的修辭/文學傳統的博弈。然而過於辭費,如果每碰上一種母題/風格/題材都要從頭追溯一下源流,任何一本書都能被擴充到三倍長吧……四、五、七章後半狹義意義上“文學/詩歌”的比重較大。
评分一面是Kantorowicz式的個體/政治之二分,另一面是君主道德約束與一不小心就會誘人入歧途的修辭/文學傳統的博弈。然而過於辭費,如果每碰上一種母題/風格/題材都要從頭追溯一下源流,任何一本書都能被擴充到三倍長吧……四、五、七章後半狹義意義上“文學/詩歌”的比重較大。
评分在唐太宗刻意營造自己的帝王政治形象的心態分析比較到位(玄武門之變和逼父退位的陰影揮之不去),對史料的文化分析也相當有宇文師之風,但是對Pre-Tang的分析實在太discursive,「詩學」並不突出。#壹陸讀#097 #SOAS
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