Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Lecture: Writing Women

Liu Xiang's Biographies of Women. (development of harsher and harsher bios)

"The Epitaph of Fang Mu Zhang Ruren" by Gui Youguang (1507-1571)
Wu Meicun "The Epitaph of Wang Mu Zhou Taianren"
The Epitaph of Pei Mu Cha Yiran.

Ban Zhao.

(Wang Zhaojun)?

Li Qingzhao.

Poetry: why does autobiography have to be prose? Why...so overt?

a little poem about the woodpecker. Example of Odd autobiography!

The Inner Palace, described. 73-74 of the Red Brush.

"In ancient times there was lady Fan but now we have Concubine Ban" !

use Idema's text, because embedded in the biography. 80

(reading tips: reading poems with allusions)

defense poem: Red Brush 304.

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