Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Sinica Leidensia, 86)

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fringe poetry, but not prose 223 CHAPTER SIX FRINGE POETRY, BUT NOT PROSE: XI CHUAN AND YU JIAN Xi Chuan’s poetry and Yu Jian’s ...

224 chapter six were republished in Taiwan in Modern Poetry (⦄ҷ䆫); it is included in The Poetry of Yu Jian (Ѣമⱘ䆫, 2000), and so ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 225 1. A Wonderful Inadequacy of Definitions When asked, people will commonly say that they know wh ...

226 chapter six job equally well. Xiaoxiao doesn’t engage with Lin Yiliang’s claim that prose poetry is a true borderline case a ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 227 feelings and situations and the rotation of “the world” and “I.”^5 Xiao- xiao’s theory is probl ...

228 chapter six able language, to create things that intensify language and yet defy it. These things may be supremely personal ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 229 is closer to the patterns of everyday speech—so that in prose, literary usage is at the shortes ...

230 chapter six trast, prose poetry doesn’t manifest itself in literature from the People’s Republic until the mid-1980s. Orthod ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 231 epilogue entitled «Last Book» (ो᳿) containing “no main text” out- side «Appendix One: File Prod ...

232 chapter six «Book Two History of Growing Up » and his listening has begun and his looking has begun and his moving has begun ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 233 size of one Chinese character. The text thus shows a double discontent with conventional line b ...

234 chapter six de hÙngmíng, ér yÊng xiàng f¿ng de håxiào. Gèng qiángliè de xÊntiào bànsúizhe gèng dà de jìjìng, y©nkàn cúnzhù d ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 235 As regards their sound, then, «Salute» and «File 0» are no less dif- ferent than in the way the ...

236 chapter six 15 kilos of old magazines 5 kilos of old wall calendars 20 kilos of waste paper unit price for old magazines 0.2 ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 237 to parenthood to political rights. A time- and place-bound reading, then, could bring to mind K ...

238 chapter six institutionalization. In this respect as in others, Yu Jian’s method is one of brute force and of what I have ca ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 239 If a poetry-reading attitude is sensitive to things like ambiguity, contra- diction, paradox an ...

240 chapter six Iconicity Let’s recall one of Simon’s claims for poetry, made in the spirit of Ro- man Jakobson:^17 This is what ...

fringe poetry, but not prose 241 Presence versus Progression To conclude this section, I will examine both texts with extensive ...