| The Buddhism words and Metaphysics paragraph in The Discourse of The Literary Mind and the Carving Dragons are always the perspectives for scholars to explore the source of thinking of Liu Xie. The thesis attempts to look for new perspectives to justify the diversity of intellectual background and literature taste of The Literary Mind and the Carving Dragons. In the first chapter, the intellectual source of the idea that Discourse revering the Classics will be analyzed, that consists of the content and the ideology of the genre Discourse. In the second chapter, the reason of BaiHu General Sense being the normative form of the Discourse will be questioned, that refers to the form and taste options of the genre Discourse. In the third chapter, the selections both in The Discourse of The Literary Mind and the Carving Dragons and The Wen Xuan will be compared to represent how genre Discourse was constructed and shaped by The Discourse of The Literary Mind and the Carving Dragons. In last chapter, the change of the whole Discourse from Three Kingdoms to Song of Southern Dynasties will be analyzed. |