Williams Professor Wins Joseph Levenson Book Prize
Christopher Nugent |
"Manifest in Words, Written on Paper" offers a sophisticated analysis of practices of composing, reading, reciting, and circulating poetry in the Tang era. By illustrating the material lives that poems led during the Tang, from words on paper to songs sung in taverns and even the imperial court, this study challenges a number of assumptions that underlie both traditional and contemporary critical approaches to these works.
Nugent’s book further explores the nature of memory and the role memory played in preserving and transmitting texts, the complex relationship between orality and text, the perception of spontaneity as a literary value, and the methods of textual collecting as a part of medieval Chinese literati culture.
Nugent has also published works in The University of Toronto Quarterly, T’oung Pao, and Asia Major. He received his B.A. from Brown University in 1991 and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004.
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