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The Book of Songs

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Produktbeschreibung

Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 2
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780415612654
• ISBN-10: 0415612659
• Artikelnr.: 42101851

Autorenporträt

Arthur Waley

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Courtship
Chapter 3 Marriage
Chapter 4 Warriors and Battles
Chapter 5 Agriculture
Chapter 6 Blessings on Gentle Folk
Chapter 7 Welcome
Chapter 8 Feasting
Chapter 9 The Clan Feast
Chapter 10 Sacrifice
Chapter 11 Music and Dancing
Chapter 12 Dynastie Songs
Chapter 13 Dynastie Legends
Chapter 14 Building
Chapter 15 Hunting
Chapter 16 Friendship
Chapter 17 Moral Pieces
Chapter 18 Lamentations