A Way To Harmonization: Poetics Of Tang's

In the history of modern Chinese poetic criticism, the "New Chinese Poetry" school of the 1940s, also called "the Nine Leaves" since the 1980s, has now established itself as an important part of modern Chinese poetics because of its modernity and comprehensiveness. Tang Shi, dubbed as one of the "Twins Stars" of poetical criticism in the New Poetry school, together with Yuan Kejia, is gaining critical concern because of his unique poetics, namely, its inner construction and the morphological structure of the text.With an emphasis on first-hand material, this thesis attempts to start a case study in the context of a particular historical and cultural background on the basis of existing researches. From such perspectives as the mental features, artistic ontology and the relationship between modernity and ethos, this study tries to reveal the distinction of Tang's poetics from his contemporary mainstream discourse, and one step further, to reveal the unique worth and magnificence of Tang's poetics in modern Chinese poetry, based on an analysis of his ontological poetics and its relations with these in both China and abroad.The introduction is a brief survey of the research history and present condition of the study of Tang's poetics and an introduction to the methodology of the present study.Chapter One expounds the multi-dimensional features of Tang's critical mentality in his poetic criticism and his obsession with artistic ontology under the particular historical and cultural background of the 1940s, so as to find out the distinctive quality of Tang's poetics from the mainstream poetics in his time.Chapter Two discusses Tang's discriminative discernments of such topics as "ethnic form" and "ethnic tradition", which were central in the 1940s, and analyzes the relations between Tang's poetics and that in both China and the west, so as to demonstrate the fuse of modernity and ethnic features in Tang's poetics.Chapter Three probes into Tang's construction of his ontological poetics from the perspectives of imagery theory, the integration of feeling and wit, and the poetic form, so that we can discover the magnificence of Tang's poetics to the making and development of the modern Chinese poetry and poetics.The long, complex and tortuous course of development of modern Chinese poetic criticism has offered us abundant experiences and lessons in the treatment of the relations between modernity and traditional features, between western and...