Nicholas Morrow Williams

Preliminary Material -- Introduction--The Double Voice -- 1 A Brocade of Words: Theories of Poetic Imitation -- 2 The Reciprocal Origins of Pentasyllabic Verse and of Imitation Poetry -- 3 Impersonation and the Art of Authorship -- 4 Echoing through the Rafters: The Afterlife of Jian'an -- 5 Self-Portrait as Sea Anemone, and Other Impersonations of Jiang Yan -- 6 Jiang Yan's Allusive and Illusive Journeys -- 7 Pathways in Obscurity: Jiang Yan and Ruan Ji -- Appendix: Jiang Yan's Poems in Diverse Forms -- Works Cited -- Index.

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