Song Studies and Literary Concepts of the Song Dynasty

Author: Li Chunqing
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Publish Date: 2001-10-01
Features: "The Series of Culture and Poetics" (a ten-volume set), in terms of depth and breadth, is a series with substantial content. The ten books have different contents, varying perspectives, and distinct authorial styles, but all employ the methodology of "cultural poetics." Tracing the cultural background and revealing the cultural significance, the entire series covers the following common themes: Discussing the past and the present – cultural inheritance and recreation; Discussing the West and the East – opening oneself up and embracing the world; Religion and poetics – the religious sentiments of poets (writers). This book is one of the series, aiming to reveal the non-poetic, i.e., the rich sociocultural content embedded in the Song Dynasty's poetics, and to trace the academic trajectory of the formation of this poetics. Ultimately, by elucidating the fundamental principles of Song Studies, it seeks to identify the deep-seated meaning-generating patterns shared by Song Studies and Song Dynasty poetics. The content of this book covers: The cultural mindset of Song Dynasty scholars, the basic academic interests and core categories of Song Studies, the basic spirit and value orientation of Song Dynasty poetics, the general influence of Song Studies on Song Dynasty poetics, the status of Ouyang Xiu in Song Dynasty poetics, Shu Studies and poetics, Daoism and poetics, the divergence of poetics from the spirit of Song Studies – from Yang Wanli to Yan Yu, etc.