Speaker: Paula Varsano
Time: 6 pm CET 3, 10 February 2022
Dr. Paula Varsano is a professor of Chinese Literature and South and Southeast Asian Studies Department Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in classical poetry and poetics from the third through the eleventh centuries and her research interests range across such topics as literature and subjectivity, the evolution of spatial representation in poetry, and the history and poetics of traditional literary criticism.
Her major publications include: Tracking the Banished Immortal: The Poetry of Li Bo and its Critical Reception (Hawaii, 2003), The Rhetoric of Hiddenness in Traditional Chinese Culture (SUNY, 2016). Currently, she is working on a new book, Knowing and Being Known: The Lyric Subject in Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics.
Lecture 1
Suggested readings:
VARSANO, PAULA M. “Looking for the Recluse and Not Finding Him In: The Rhetoric of Silence in Early Chinese Poetry.” Asia Major, vol. 12, no. 2, Academia Sinica, 1999, pp. 39–70 link
Lecture 2
Suggested readings:
Varsano, Paula. “Disappearing Objects/Elusive Subjects: Writing Mirrors in Early and Medieval China.” Representations, vol. 124, no. 1, University of California Press, 2013, pp. 96–124 link
Useful resources:
- 中國基本古籍庫 (Chinese Classic Ancient Books)
- 古今圖書集成 (Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China) (wikisource, ctext)