Lecture: Inhibition and Indulgence

Lecture 01 (?) Inhibition and indulgence

Review the historical context. The mountain that is the Han!

(reading tips: nested reading)

"As the self was not considered a self-contained entity that defined its own importance, autobiography, a genre that apparently celebrates the achievement of the autonomous individual, was tantamount to unabashed self-exaltation." Jumping through hoops p. 4. This is of course only one half of the story.

Encountering sorrow. "distasteful narcissim"? Red Brush, p. 6: "ci poems and feminine mode."

Wang Chong, "the first untrammeled autobiographical expression in China" (Wu 45-6)

Cao Pi's Tianlun Self-reference as "I"

Elements to point out: "I" (explain); temporal/spatial (comix? Larson!)