Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-516) and index.

Casting off: a theoretical introduction -- The other shore: China and the early history of the literary -- The source and streams flowing from it -- "West of the river": the Jiangxi poets -- The Jiangxi style in the field of cultural production -- Sounding bottom: Yang Wanli and the dynamics of poetic experience -- Reading the wind: Lu You and the poetics of experience -- Head winds: displacing the aesthetic in Daoxue -- Discourse from the Northern Song to Zhu Xi -- Changing course: the discourse of the way in mid-Southern Song China -- Drifting amidst rivers and lakes: poetry in the early thirteenth century -- An inner compass: the poetry of experience at dynasty's end.

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