Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

9/1/1974 - 8/31/1975

Funding Totals

$48,003.00 (approved)
$48,003.00 (awarded)


Chienese yueh-fu Poetry

FAIN: FA-10776-74

Hans H. Frankel
Yale University (New Haven, CT 06510-1703)

To continue a study of the Chinese poetic genre known as yueh-fu, form the second century B.C. to the tenth century A.D. The yueh-fu is a kind of ballad, and one of my aims is to define the feature it shares with ballads in other languages (particularly English, German, Spanish, and French), and to isolate those characteristics which are uniquely Chinese.