LYRICISM AND ITS DISCONTENTS: EXPLORING THREE DIMENSIONS OF MODERN CHINESE POETICS

• Authors: Zhang Songjian
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Viewed in hindsight, shuqingzhuyi 'Lyricism' as a discursive practice is notorious in modern Chinese poetics. Both romanticists and realists, preachers of chunshi 'Pure Poetry' and advocates of dazhonghua shige 'Popular Poetry' have been obsessed with lyricism. However, from the late 1920s upward, so many dissidents cast doubts on the validity of lyricism that fanshuqingzhuyi 'anti-lyricism' became prevalent. Last but not least, the 1930s - 1940s witnessed the appearance of shendu shuqing 'deep lyrical' in the literary arena, which tended to undermine lyricism from a different hermeneutic framework. So far the scholarship in this field remains scanty although modern Chinese poetics invites a thorough treatment of the three dimensions; this paper is an attempt to investigate the above issues in hopes of expanding the critical horizon for the study of modern Chinese poetics.

Keywords

EN

ANTI-LYRICISM; CHINA; CHINESE POETICS; DEEP LYRIC; LYRICISM

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 20
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Zhang Songjian

• School of Liberal Arts, Capital Normal University, 83 Xi-san-huan North Road, Beijing, China 100089

• Songjian Zhang, Ustav orientalistiky SAV, Klemensova 19, 813 64 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA097023