Asian Lit Flashcards
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encompasses various facets of literature.
Asian Literature
influence Asian communities, literary flourished to emulate these developments.
religion, war, and politics
Asian literature reflects the similarities in customs and traditions of ________ and ________ countries, their philosophies of life, and the struggles and successes of their developing nations and its people.
African and Asian
is one of the major literary heritages of the world, with an uninterrupted history of more than 3,000 years, dating back at least to the 14th century BCE.
Chinese literature
has retained its unmistakable identity in its spoken and written aspects in spite of generally gradual changes in pronunciation, the existence of regional and local dialects, and several stages in the structural representation of the written graphs, or “characters.”
Chinese language
is the finest era of the Chinese literature because the poets created landmark works.
Tang Dynasty
who are the famous poets in Tang Dynasty
Tu Fu, Li Po and Wang Wei
Chinese literature has profoundly influenced the literary traditions of other Asian countries, particularly
Korea, Japan, and Vietnam
The fact that each graph had a _____________ in each context created many homonyms, which led to misunderstanding and confusion when spoken or read aloud without the aid of the graphs.
monophonic pronunciation
The earliest writing of literature in Japanese was motivated by impact from
China
places as one of the major literatures in the world. Both in quantity and in quality, like in age, vibrancy and capacity to English literature, although its pattern of improvement has been somewhat different. The surviving works comprise a literary tradition extending from 7th century to present.
Japanese literature
One of the renowned poetic forms in Japan is
Haiku
Japan’s various theatrical genres
“Noh” and “Kabuki”
Because it is prevailingly personal and colored by an emotional rather than intellectual or moralistic mood, its themes have a universal quality almost unchanged by time.
Japanese literature
has always favored vagueness, and the elements of speech required for easy understanding of a statement are often excluded as unnecessary or as thoroughly precise.
Japanese style
of all periods is extremely interesting to modern-day readers, whether read in the original or in translation.
Japanese literature
depict an exceptional range of styles, which cannot be clarified merely in terms of the natural progression of the language.
Japanese literature
can barely be exaggerated; even a specialist in one period is likely to have trouble deciphering a work from another period or genre.
Japanese literature
consists the body of works written by Koreans, at first in Classical Chinese, later in various transcription systems using Chinese characters, and finally in Hangul
Korean literature
has had its own language for several thousand years, it has had a writing system only since the mid-15th century, when Hangul was invented. As a result, early literary activity was in Chinese characters. Korean scholars were writing poetry in the traditional manner of Classical Chinese at least by the 4th century CE.
Korean literature
In 7th century a system, called ____, had been devised that allowed Koreans to make rough transliterations of Chinese texts. Eventually, certain Chinese characters were used for their phonetic value to represent Korean particles of speech and inflectional endings.
idu
poems were written in four, eight, or 10 lines; the 10-line form comprising two four-line stanzas and a concluding two-line stanza was the most popular and oldest form in Korean literature.
Hyangga (native songs)
flourished during the middle and late Koryŏ period. It is characterized by a refrain either in the middle or at the end of each stanza. The theme of most of these anonymous poems is love, the joys and torments of which are expressed in frank and powerful language.
Pyŏlgok or Changga (special songs)
is the longest-enduring and most popular form of Korean poetry. are threeline poems in which each line has 14 to 16 syllables and the total number of syllables seldom exceeds 45. Each line consists of groups of four syllables. may deal with Confucian ethical values, but there are also many poems about nature and love.
Sijo (current melodies)
