New Exploration of Poetic Debates

Author: Guo Jinxi
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Yan Yu's On the Waves of is a systematic and theoretically profound poetics from the Song Dynasty, holding a significant position in the history of ancient Chinese poetry theory. Among them, On Poetry serves as the general outline, with Distinctive Material, Distinctive Interest, Interest, and Sublime Insight being its essence. However, history has been filled with debates and diverse opinions on these core issues. This book places On Poetry Interpretation in the long river of the development of Chinese poetry theory and conducts a systematic and in-depth examination from the perspective of poetic history. It is the first to propose that Yan Yu's Distinctive Material, Distinctive Interest, Interest, and Sublime Insight can be expressed in modern language as Subject Matter Theory, Theme Theory, Creation Theory, and Learning Methodology, forming an inseparable organic whole. The author's elaboration and analysis demonstrate the rigor of the poetic system in On the Waves of. The book is rigorous in structure, precise in argumentation, and presents novel perspectives, largely clarifying the series of academic disputes surrounding Yan Yu's On the Waves of over the past centuries.