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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David R. Knechtges , Eugene VancePublisher: University of Washington Press Imprint: University of Washington Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.653kg ISBN: 9780295984506ISBN 10: 0295984503 Pages: 365 Publication Date: 01 March 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by David R. Knechtges Part I. Rhetoric of Persuasion 1. The Rhetoric of Imperial Abdication and Accession in a Third-Century Chinese Court: The Case of Cao Pi's Accession as Emperor of the Wei Dynasty by David R. Knechtges 2. The Court, Politics, and Rhetoric in England, 1310-1330 by Scott L. Waugh Part II. Rhetoric of Taste 3. Poems for the Emperor: Imperial Tastes in the Early Ninth Century by Pauline Wu 4. Claiming the Past for the Present: Ichijo Kaneyoshi and Tales of Ise by Steven D. Carter 5. The Emperor and the Ink Plum: Tracing a Lost Connection between Literati and Huizong's Court by Ronald Egan Part III. Rhetoric of Communication 6. Personal Crisis and Communication in the Life of Cao Zhi by Robert Joe Cutter 7. Keeping Secrets in a Dark Age by Paul Edward Dutton 8. The Politics of Classical Chinese in the Early Japanese Court by Robert Borgen Part IV. Rhetoric of Gender 9. One Sight: The Han shu Biography of Lady Li by Stephen Owen 10. Poetry of Palace Plaint of the Tang: Its Potential and Limitations by Kuo-ying Wang Part V. Rhetoric of Natural Nobility 11. Dante in God's Court: The Paradise at the End of the Road by Eugene Vance 12. Practicing Nobility in Fifteenth-Century Burgundian Courtly Culture: Ideology and Politics by Arjo Vanderjagt IndexReviewsRhetoric and the Discourses of Power in Court Culture represents a significant achievement. All the essays contained in the volume are lucid and generally jargon-free. Students and scholars of rhetoric and related fields will find it engaging, thought-provoking, and rewarding. Rhetorical Review An excellent volume on an important but understudied topic. The research is original and the prose thoughtful and jargon-free. --Martin Kern, Princeton University Nothing quite like this has been published before. The essays serve admirably to begin a discussion of 'court culture': What is it? How should it be defined? Who creates it and for whom? --Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorad Author InformationDavid Knechtges is professor of Chinese literature and Eugene Vance is professor of French and Italian studies, both at the University of Washington. Other contributors are Robert Borgen (University of California, Davis), Steven D. Carter (University of California, Irvine), Robert Joe Cutter (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Paul Dutton (Simon Fraser University), Ronald Egan (University of California, Santa Barbara), Stephen Owen (Harvard University), Arjo Vanderjagt (University of Groningen), Kuo-ying Wang (National Taiwan University), Scott Waugh (University of California, Los Angeles), and Pauline Yu (University of California, Los Angeles). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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