Tom MazanecIt’s a real book! And just in time for Christmas
#PoetMonks #Chinese #Buddhism #Literature #Poetry #Religion #History
My first book will be coming out with Cornell University Press next year. It's titled "Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China." There's finally a webpage for it, so it feels "real" enough to announce.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773839/poet-monks/#bookTabs=1
#PoetMonks combines #CloseReading, #DigitalHumanities, and #Manuscript studies to re-examine the role of #Buddhism in #Medieval #Chinese #poetry and rethink #literaryhistory.
Cover art (and much more!) to come soon.
Poet-Monks by Thomas J. Mazanec | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
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...