Knowledge Commons | Thomas Mazanec | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/tommazanec/activity/ Activity feed for Thomas Mazanec. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:53:59 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 14fd710192c2cacea60bcf12493eba2a Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874115/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

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]]> 0 affa615a972097973bf843d5100a735f Thomas Mazanec deposited Of Admonition and Address: Right-Hand Inscriptions (Zuoyouming) from Cui Yuan to Guanxiu in the group Poetics and Poetry https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1742501/ Sat, 19 Jun 2021 02:44:14 -0400 This essay traces the development of the right-hand inscription (zuoyouming 座右銘) from its birth in the second century CE through its culmination as a complex literary subgenre in the tenth. Over the course of these eight centuries, right-hand inscriptions were used by some of the most prominent poets of their respective eras, including Cui Yuan…[Read more]

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]]> 0 27b7583913acfaf11c0015491079ceb3 Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673214/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:32:12 -0500 In late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]

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]]> 0 9b566e929f7cce4e5cbd48acdcfb1a3b Tom Mazanec deposited Chinese 211: Bibliography and Research Methods in the group TC Digital Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1628003/ Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:36:33 -0500 The purpose of this course is to introduce graduate students to the tools, methods, and history of sinology. Sinology refers to the study of China as performed in a philological manner. Philology refers to the historical study of language and literature in its fullest context. It is inherently interdisciplinary. It draws on the fields of…[Read more]

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]]> 0 6b352c4db4175c6946552b805f788bbf Tom Mazanec deposited Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society in the group LLC Ming and Qing Chinese https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1617219/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 16:40:30 -0400 This paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]

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]]> 0 130e096d0d983f55f87dc35a2b812737 Tom Mazanec deposited Home > Journals > Frontiers of Literary Studies in China > Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrativ... Advanced Search button for Search Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1615758/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:58:32 -0400 This paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of th…[Read more]

]]> 0 bf9de8545545bafab8da53148a68e727 Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry
 in the group TC Translation Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580797/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:20:55 -0400 Abstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]

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 in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580796/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:17:01 -0400 Abstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]

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