Eagle Spirit and Poetic Soul (A Study on Ancient Yi Poetic Classics)

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 ethnic group. The author attempts to adopt a cultural self-perspective (emic) approach, using a wealth of materials from ancient culture, 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, as well as the interplay between religion and literature. Through horizontal and vertical thinking, it comprehensively observes the world-wide significant literary phenomenon of religious poetry.