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Research On Chinese Modern Writer's Classical-form Poetry Writing After 1949

Posted on:2010-02-23Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z F LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360275990290Subject:Chinese Modern and Contemporary Literature
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This dissertation is focused on Chinese modern writer's classical form poetrywriting after 1949. Classical form poetry met modern writer's creating desire andserved as an effective channel to express writer's feelings. Classical form poetry nowhas become an indispensable approach to understand modern writer's spiritual world.Considering the significance of Chinese modern writer's classical form poetry, theauthor chooses it as the research object.This dissertation tries to surpass former related research both in research anglesand methods. Fist, former modern classical form poetry study mostly focused in thestyle research. The greatest difference between this paper and former research is thatmodern writer as an confining criteria is introduced for the first time in this paper.Secondly, this dissertation introduced both historical and synchronic coordinates.Thirdly, this paper also regards modern classical form poetry as a new frame ofreference to reflect existing history of literature narration.This dissertation is composed by four parts:The first part focuses on the poetry's environment in the People's Republic ofChina era. The reappraisal on new poetry after 1919 and debates on the road ofChinese poetry constitute the background of writer's classical form poetry. Theemphasis on learning from traditional poetry reaffirmed the value of classical poetryforms. The publication of Mao Zedong's classical form poetry created a relaxedatmosphere for classical form poetry, and it encouraged writers to write classical formpoetry.The second part is focused on the contraction and interaction between writer'smodern and classical literature training and writing. Classical literature trainingcultivates their favor in classical forms as well as their views on Chinese poetry.Modern writer's classical form poetry writing generally accompanies withcontradictory mentalities. On the one hand, modern writers write classical form poetry;On the other hand, they feel remorse for their classic form poetry and depreciate their writing. Writers distinguish and position their modern literature writing and classicalform writing clearly. Modern writer's writing skills of classical literature and modernliterature are interactive.The third part researches the innovation of modern writer's classical form poetrycompared with ancient Chinese poetry. Modern writer's classical form poetryenlarged the subject sphere of traditional poetry. There are many new subjects such asmodern industrial and agricultural construction in modern writer's classical formpoetry, which have never appeared in traditional poetry. Modern writer's classicalform poetry used various new words or phrases and it also broke rules and forms ofclassical poem. These changes showed an intimacy with ballad and free verse poem.The fourth part appraises the character and value of modern writer's classicalform poetry. Writer's classical form poetry acts as a clerk of history and recordedmany historical events. The furthest transformation modern classical form poetry hasis its humor style. This humor style is the result of approaching ballad and free versepoetry. Modern writer's classical form poetry shows a lot of traditional feelings whichis very close to ancient writers'. Furthermore, it is similar to ancient poetry inwriting,circulation, etc. Researchers should not emphasize its modernity one-sidedly.Modern writer's classical form poetry indicates that Chinese literature in 20thcentury is an era in which modern literature coexists with traditional literature ratherthan a pure modern literature one. Classical form poetry plays an indispensable role inliterature history. It assumes some functions which modern form literature do not have.The complementary situation between traditional literature and modern literaturemakes it possible for writes to switch between these two kinds of literature.
Keywords/Search Tags:Modern writer, Chinese classical-form poetry, Cultural context, Artistic innovation, Contradiction, Interaction
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