Study Of The Literary And Artistic Theory In Writings Of Master Liu

Content: Writings of Master Liu is a philosophical works written before the Tang Dynasty and is 10 volumes 55 pieces in all whose title was first seen in Bibliography of Chronicles of the Sui Dynasty; whose content is considerably heterogeneous mainly referring to rluling a nation and cherishing subjects, dismissing excessive desires and cultivating the mind, advocating learning and the virtue of huminity, misfortunes or blessings and benefits or calamities and so on; which nearly relates to people's social rules and moral culture;in which there are Correct Virtuosity, Different Liking, From Ambarrassment To Splendour and Discriminating Music etc. that incarnate more or less literary and artistic ideas, original, illuminating, acceptable.Because the academic circles do not have final conclusion to, this book auther, have different statements, influence its spread, its content is not quite known. In order to discover and develop the academic value of this book, in order to inherit the ancient traditional criticism, select its essence to use by today, Research on Literary and Artistic Theory in Writings of Master Liu is established as the selected title to the thesis and working purpose especially.Comprehensive research in the thesis is carried on by means of such many kinds of methods as hemeneutics, vertical comparison, logical classification, theoretic judgement etc. The content of the full text is divided into five parts: say Review Actualities of Research into Writings of Master Liu which introduces the auther, the content, the editions of this book and states all says and indicates one's own views for some questions have disputes; say Discrimination in Literary Categories in Writings of Master Liu which includes one between "appellation and fact", one between "nature and feeling" , one between "sound and music", one between "speech and truth" , one between "criticism and virtuosity" and expatiates the auther's discrimination in them, defination to them and their critical significance; say the Theory of Artistic Incentive in Writings of Master Liu which review the auther's the theory of summoning up one's courage from ambarrassment, the theory of spirit calm and feeling mild, the theory of cherishing time and valueing efficiency that deal with the views of one's incentive, mentality, efficiency; say the Theory of Literary Criticism in Writings of Master Liu which review Master Liu's speech and significance onthe abuse in literary circles, appreciative attitude, critical capacity. "The new opinions" of this thesis embody in comparatively systematically discussing and generalizing the literary theories in the philosophical works of Writings of Master Liu, abstracting and valuating such acceptable conceptions and categories and academic propositions as "correct virtuosity" view, "just criticism" view, "summoning up one's courage from ambarrassment", "Neither beauty nor ugliness is in shape", "One could not be puzzled by appellation's disaccordance with its fact. Nor could one's feeling be changed by difference in between antiquity and nowadays." And so on.There have been different opinions on the auther to Writings of Master Lu since from the Tang Dynasty, on which some insist on Liu Xin, Liu Xie, Liu Xiaobiao but others insist on Liu Zhou who is the scholar in the Bei Qi Dynasty. Such latter-day people as Mr. Yu Jiaxi and Mr. Yang Mingzhao had regarded its auther as Liu Zhou through examination that is acceptable. This book was subjected to the miscellaneous school, the philosophical branch in ancient bibliography and (although it is not purely criticism works,) the literary theory contained in it is comparatively abundant and is rather high-level in academic value, where nothing is there to lack of original and accurate opinions and some parts of it may be compared to read with Carving a Dragon at the Core ofLiterature. Someone in the past time applaused it: "its word is fine and should be the elite in the QiDynasty and the Liang Dynasty ".