Eagle Spirit and Poetic Soul: A Study of Ancient Yi Poetic Texts

Author: Hu Sheng
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Publish Date: 2002-02-01
Features: This book is one of the series "Youth Scholar Collection" of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This book can be considered a monograph on the ancient religious poetics of the Yi people. The author attempts to adopt a cultural self-perspective (emic) approach, using a vast amount of ancient cultural materials, based on the religious personality of the poetic writing group—priests—to explore the theory of poetics from the perspective of religious anthropology. It traces the evolutionary trajectory of shamanism and poetry growing together, and the interaction between religion and literature. Through horizontal and vertical thinking, it comprehensively observes the world's major literary phenomenon of religious poetry.