Cultural Reflections in Classical Poetry Studies: Special Issue of the Center for Chinese Poetry Studies, Nanjing University

Author: Mo Lifeng
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: This book observes Chinese classical poetics from different cultural perspectives. It begins with a general introduction that elaborates on the poetic characteristics of Chinese culture, and then divides into three sections: The first section explores the internal structure of classical poetics by examining the relationships among different eras, genders, and literary genres, as well as tracing the origins of certain literary concepts. The second section conducts multi-dimensional cultural studies on the poets Du Fu and Lu You. The third section examines the interpretation of classical poetry from the perspectives of textual criticism, annotations, and selected collections. In addition to the general introduction, which has a macro-level analytical nature, the main part of the book consists of empirical studies on some important specific issues in classical poetics, presenting relatively novel viewpoints and innovative approaches to problem-solving and research methods.