Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-516) and index.
Contents
Casting off : a theoretical introduction -- The other shore : China and the early history of the literary -- The source and streams flowing from it -- "West of the river" : the Jiangxi poets -- The Jiangxi style in the field of cultural production -- Sounding bottom : Yang Wanli and the dynamics of poetic experience -- Reading the wind : Lu You and the poetics of experience -- Head winds : displacing the aesthetic in Daoxue -- Discourse from the Northern Song to Zhu Xi -- Changing course : the discourse of the way in mid-Southern Song China -- Drifting amidst rivers and lakes : poetry in the early thirteenth century -- An inner compass : the poetry of experience at dynasty's end.
