Song dynasty figures of longing and desire gender and interiority in Chinese painting and poetry / by Lara C.W. Blanchard.
| Author/creator | Blanchard, Lara C. W. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] |
| Description | xi, 319 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Women and gender in China studies, 1877-5772 ; volume 10 |
| Contents | Gendered subjectivity and representing interiority. Subjectivity and authorship : women poets, erotic personae, and female subjectivity -- Women painters and images of women -- Cross-dressing and authenticity -- Pictorial representations of inner feelings -- Modes of representing emotion in figure painting -- Melding of feeling and scene -- Interiority and the inner quarters -- Courtly and literati audiences : evidence from commentaries -- Political interpretations of desire. Handscrolls of Goddess of the Luo River -- Compositions of the Song Dynasty paintings -- Reading desire and rejection -- The Beijing handscroll Night revels of Han Xizai -- Singing girls in Tang and Song texts -- Content of the Beijing Scroll -- Early assessments of Han Xizai's character -- Political interpretations of Night revels -- Night revels and pictorial cross-dressing -- Male audience and authorship : projecting desire and longing onto the female figure. Huizong's Court ladies preparing newly woven silk -- Pounding silk and women's work -- Zhang Xuan's painting and Huizong's copy -- Mou Yi's Pounding cloth -- Visualizing a palace-style poem -- Text and interpretation -- The Female Audience : Modeling Idealized Femininity. Women and fan paintings -- Acquiring fans painted with lonely women -- The enclosed garden -- Mirrors, makeup, interiority, and performing femininity -- Ladies adorning their hair with flowers : a bed-screen? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-295) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018015655 |
| ISBN | 9789004362789 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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