Download or read book Women's Poetry and Poetics in Late Imperial China written by Haihong Yang and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary study examines women-authored poetry and poetic criticism in late imperial China. It provides close readings of original texts to explore the poetic forms and devices women poets employed, to place their work into the context of the wider literary history of the period, and to analyze how they asserted their own agency to negotiate their literary, social, and political concerns. The author also investigates the interactions between women’s poetic creations and existing male scholars' discourses and probes how these interactions generated innovative self-identities and renovations in poetic forms and aesthetics.