• Home > Journals > Frontiers of Literary Studies in China > Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrativ... Advanced Search button for Search Lyricism, the Veneration of Feeling, and Narrative Techniques in the Poetry Talks of the Southern Society

    Author(s):
    Hsiang-ling Lin
    Translator(s):
    Thomas Mazanec (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    GS Poetry and Poetics, LLC East Asian, LLC Ming and Qing Chinese
    Subject(s):
    Chinese literature, Lyric poetry, Poetics, Poetry
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    poetry talks (shihua), Southern Society (Nanshe), veneration of feeling, Lyric (genre), Poetics and poetry
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M63775V1W
    Abstract:
    This paper examines the voluminous “poetry talks” (shihua) written by Southern Society (Nanshe) members and focuses on two tendencies in these discourses: The general cult of sentimentality and the narrative strategy on women’s poetry. These poetic discourses succeeded the language of traditional literary criticism, but also exhibited ideals of the new epoch. As a rebellion to the Qing imperial standard on measured and learned poetry, Southern Society poets took instead as their role models eccentric and iconoclastic poets who “venerated feelings.” The cult of sentimentality continued the trend of individual liberation from the late Ming and further showed a collective discourse that promoted a new kind of revolutionary subjectivity. These authors were also fond of collecting sentimental stories about female poets. More than being traditional “talented women,” these poets exhibited a diversity of female roles in an era of liberation.
    Metadata:
    xml
    Published as:
    Journal article     Show details
    Pub. DOI:
    10.3868/s010-007-018-0019-1
    Publisher:
    Brill
    Pub. Date:
    2018
    Journal:
    Frontiers of Literary Studies in China
    Volume:
    12
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    324 - 350
    ISSN:
    1673-7318
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
    Share this:

    Downloads

    Item Name: pdf lin-hsiang-ling-lyricism-the-veneration-of-feeling-and-narrative-techniques-in-the-poetry-talks-of-the-southern-society-trans-thomas-j-mazanec.pdf
      Download View in browser
    Activity: Downloads: 227

    Back to Deposits