Rooted Poetry (A Study of Cultural Poetics in Modern Neo-Confucianism)

Author: Hou Min
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The book is full of literary brilliance, clear reasoning, well-organized arguments, and rich in materials, making it a valuable work of literary theory that is worth reading. It also serves as an original reading material for the study of Chinese cultural poetics. With a comprehensive academic perspective that bridges Eastern and Western studies, the book accurately and incisively summarizes and reveals the four major characteristics of Neo-Confucian poetics. It then selects the poetics of several generations of representative figures in Neo-Confucianism, such as Qian Mu, Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan, and Fang Dongmei, and elaborates on them respectively under the titles "Life Literature View," "Yi Dao Aesthetics View," "Artistic Mind View," and "Life: Poetics View," offering fresh and insightful arguments.