The Transport of Reading: Text and Understanding in the World of Tao Qian (365-427)

by Robert Ashmore

For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This theme in the reception of Tao Qian, moreover, developed alongside an assumption that Tao was fundamentally misunderstood during his own age.

This book revisits Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. How would Tao Qian have anticipated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053214
• ISBN13: 9780674053212
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"