"Garland's Draft on Discussing Words"

Author: Ye Jiaying
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: This volume collects over ten essays, arranged in order of the nature of the texts and the chronological sequence of the poets. The first eight essays are critical reviews and appreciations of individual poets and their works, while the last two explore critical theories. However, these essays were originally written as spontaneous works, arising from time, place, and circumstance, without any prior writing plan. This book is a collection of the author's critiques and appreciations of classical Chinese poetry, covering the following topics:
1. Discussing the appreciation of Chinese classical poetry through the integration of Chinese and Western poetic theories;
2. The relationship between imagery and emotion in classical poetry;
3. Exploring the relationship between imagery and emotion in Chinese classical poetry through several poetic examples;
4. Analyzing three short poems from the perspective of the relationship between imagery and emotion;
5. "Inspired by subtle words and knowing the world": A look at Wen Tingyun and Wei Zhuang's ci poems;
6. The achievements of Feng Zhengzhong's ci poetry and its transitional role;
7. The potential of textual analysis in the small ci poems of in the early Northern Song Dynasty;
8. Discussing the appreciation of's ci poetry through the "three stages of artistic attainment" and reception aesthetics;
9. Appreciating the ci poetry of Yan Shu;
10. Appreciating the ci poetry of Ouyang Xiu.