Rooted Poetics: A Study of Modern Neo-Confucian Cultural Poetics

Author: Hou Min
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The book is full of literary brilliance, clear thinking, 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 an academic perspective that bridges Eastern and Western thought, 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 using the concepts of "Life Literature View," "Yi Dao Aesthetics View," "Artistic Mind View," and "Life: Poetics View," respectively, offering fresh and innovative arguments.