Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception 9780824865276

Li Bo (701-762) has long inspired controversy among readers and critics. Known even during his lifetime as the "Ban

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Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and Its Critical Reception
9780824865276

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Paula M. Varsano

Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I: READING THE CRITICS
1. Finding Substance in Emptiness: Tracking the Immortal, Mid-Tang through Ming
2. To Study the Unlearnable: Li Bo in the Canon, Ming to Early Republic
II: READING THE POEMS
3. The Performance of Ancientness in the ‘‘Ancient Airs’’
4. The Yuefu: The Anatomy of an Unfettering
5. Alluding to Immediacy
6. Epilogue: Li Bo Remembering and Remembered
Abbreviations
Notes
Character Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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