The Question of Literariness in the Composition of Western Zhou Bronze Bell Inscriptions (2021年9月14日修改版本 Revised Version, 14 September 2021)
Year: 2020
Author: Joern Peter GRUNDMANN
饒宗頤國學院院刊, Vol. 7 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 115–151
Abstract
The present article sets out to investigate whether it is possible to talk
about verbal parallelism, such as rhyme and meter in early Chinese bronze
inscriptions in terms of sound correlated figures of speech. The answer to
this question depends on whether or not these audible patterns can be shown
to fulfill an identifiable structuring function in shaping the texts' messages.
Addressing this issue is important in so far as it bears some major clues on
how bronze inscriptions were retrieved (i.e. read, recited, etc.) and understood
during the time when their carriers were still in use.
After discussing some disputed aspects concerning the nature and function
of texts from early Chinese bronze inscriptions with regard to their ritual and
material context, the present study proceeds with a detailed literary inquiry of
the rhymed text inscribed on the late Western Zhou Guoji bian zhong 虢季編鐘 chime as a sample analysis.
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Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: Chinese
DOI: https://doi.org/2020-JAS-19888
饒宗頤國學院院刊, Vol. 7 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 115–151
Published online: 2020-01
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Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 37
Keywords: Bronze inscriptions rhyme literary form literariness