The Art of Chinese Poetry

Title Page......Page 1
Introduction......Page 6
Part I: The Chinese Language as a Medium of Poetic Expression......Page 8
1: The Structure of Chinese Characters......Page 9
2: Implications and Associations of Words and Characters......Page 12
3: Auditory Effects of Chinese and the Bases of Versification......Page 18
4: Some Grammatical Aspects of the Language of Poetry......Page 27
5: Some Chinese Concepts and Ways of Thinking and Feeling......Page 32
Part II: Some Traditional Chinese Views on Poetry......Page 38
Introductory......Page 39
1: The Didactic View......Page 40
2: The Individualist View......Page 43
3: The Technical View......Page 46
4: The Intuitionalist View......Page 48
Part III: Towards a Synthesis......Page 52
1: Poetry as Exploration of Worlds and of Language......Page 53
2: Imagery and Symbolism......Page 58
3: Allusions, Quotations, and Derivations......Page 73
4: Antithesis......Page 81
Epilogue......Page 83
Appendix......Page 86
References......Page 87