NO EXTRAVAGANCE IN POEMS. A LINKAGE BETWEEN TOEGYE'S POETIC AESTHETICS AND LIFE REALM

• Authors: Ma Zheng-ying , Xu Heng-dong
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Experiences in the heart are one matter and literary writing is another: Toegye (1501-1570, a famous Korean Confucianist), however, would rather regard the two as a completely unified process, which amalgamates an immanent quality and a literary style, without isolation between them. Toegye stressed and valued the purity of the first experience, i.e., the filtered and the purified in the heart, which would flow into the second experience and purify it as well, ultimately cultivating it into a complete aesthetic experience. Poetry should be solely triggered by positive emotions, being aesthetically clear and pure, with no extravagance inside. A plain and ordinary style of literary writing is thereby formed and is regarded as a natural access of transcendence to a philosophical, ethical, and aesthetic connotation which is pure, rich, and profound, 'shaping to Sagehood' in Confucianism. Emotion plays the role of a cementing force that unifies all these factors and sections for life aestheticization.

Keywords

EN

TOEGYE; POETIC AESTHETICS

• Publisher: Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia ad Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture
• Journal: ESPES
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 50 - 57

Contributors

author

Ma Zheng-ying

• College of Literature and Media, Guizhou University, Huaxi District, Guiyang City 550025, Guizhou Province, China

author

Xu Heng-dong

Identifiers

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.6639812