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University of Hawai'i |
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For Immediate Release: |
October 6, 1998 |
Contact: David Beasley, Center for Chinese Studies ph 956-2691; fax 956-2682 |
David McCraw offers seminar on early Chinese verse "Fugue and Flight in Early Chinese Verse" is the title of an October 14 seminar by David McCraw, professor of Chinese literature in the UH Manoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature. The seminar takes place in the Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319) from noon to 1:30. It is sponsored by the UH Center for Chinese Studies. The public is welcome to attend this free event.
David McCraw specializes in old Chinese verse and has a particular interest in making old poems come alive for modern Westernized readers. He is the author of Women and Old Chinese Poetry (UH: 1996) and "Hanging by a Thread: the Deviant Closures of Li He," (CLEAR 18, 1996).
"Fugue and Flight in Early Chinese Verse" will address how themes of flight/escape interweave with "escapist words" to create some of the earliest "polyphonic" or at least "polysemous" poems in early China. To justify the odd comparison implied in "polyphonic," McCraw will read four or five early poems to tease out what he hears as different voices and nuances within the texts. |
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