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Tang Dynasty Female Poetry Study

Posted on:2006-09-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F YuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360182971939Subject:Tang and Song Literature
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During the course of Chinese literature for several thousand years, it is no longer a novelty that culture and literature balance between female and male in a given historical period are unreal. When modern theories of criticism of literature and art break through idea limitations, literature research is offered another possible perspective and traits of thought from bisexual perspective. The paper focuses on the poem of Tang Dynasty, analyzes and discusses them from three dimensions:The first point is about female theme and aesthetics in the literati poem of Tang Dynasty. The point analyzes emphatically the theme and the thrust of literati poem of Tang Dynasty to try to understand female aesthetics concept and culture intention. Female poem has two kinds of thematic models. One is social theme to indicate female value; The other is oppression of sex ethically. Between these subjects, the image of female embodies three kinds: a sacrificing mother; a virtuous, kind and genial wife or mother having self-consciousness; a woman trying to return herself. The maternity and wifely virtues are stressed, but only at the expense of female subsist. Correspondingly, female aesthetics including aesthetics of body, game disposition and intellect appear aesthetic antagonism about freedom aesthetics and servility aesthetics. The background of Taoism and multiracial culture help to bring about female freedom aesthetics. Female servility aesthetics stands by Confucianism and Buddhism.The second point is female outlook on time and space in Tang Dynasty indicating women' fate of Tang Dynasty from time and space perspective. Female time of poem of Tang Dynasty has two connotations. One is romantic hope by recollecting female image. The other is conscious of hardship by being afraid of future. The sense of prototype is about consciousness of recalling seasons and the dead of night with emotion. Male feels extremely sorrowful when he sees the flying time because of hisloneliness in the terms of era. Female' sorrow is due to her unfortunate fate. Female is in a difficult cultural and ethical position from space. Totally, female description about space attributes to woman missing her husband. The third point is poetesses' expressions and propagation. Poetesses' expressions and their spreading dissects marked characters of poetesses' expressions and the circumstances of their works on the verge of acceptability, spreading and criticism. Poetesses' expressions about female tragedy clear up their objective awareness. On the base of the character of society, optimistic pursuit, philosophical thoughts about female sorrow and sadness and worries give rise to the feelings in poem of Tang Dynasty. Female poem appears to be in two kinds of different mentality because of depending on or deviating from the male-centered culture. Poetesses are provided with two kinds of different tactics of expression and gesture of establishment themselves on the basis of their soliloquy and conversation to promote mutual understanding. Notable traits of poetesses' way of thinking about aesthetics are manifested in the core of the image and three ways of showing of the image. From spreading, the difficulties female works are not accepted are mainly from female creative experience separated from history and jockeyed with the male-centered culture is too fastidious to female works.
Keywords/Search Tags:sex and female, female theme and aesthetics, female and time and space, subject expression and spreading
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