Modern Chinese poetry has since its inception been subjected to unfavourable comments as compared to classical Chinese poetry, which can be construed as the result of the alleged unintelligibility problem encountered in interpretation of poetry. This thesis attempts to find out if it is justified to attribute modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem. Accordingly, a purported criterion of poetry assessment, shiyi 詩意 (literally “poeticalness”), as well as a theoretical framework based on shiyi, is formulated primarily in light of Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson’s relevance theory and Paul Ricoeur’s hermeneutics. Whereas relevance theory is a cognitive pragmatic approach focusing on recovery of meanings of an utterance by tracing the authorial intention through relevance, Ricoeur’s hermeneutics sees textual interpretation as relying on a hermeneutical circle through which a reader produces a world of the text, itself also a means by which the reader attains or enriches self-understanding. To incorporate the speaker-centred relevance theory, Ricoeur’s comparatively reader-oriented model, as well as other related text-focused approaches into the proposed framework, the central concept of shiyi is put forward with a view to bridging the distance between emphasis on author, reader and text. The framework formulated should be more applicable to literary texts and less vulnerable to the intriguing authorship problematic. In addition, a “subtlety-unintelligibility continuum” is posited and developed within the framework to identify and account for the differences in shiyi, as well as to provide a clear characterisation of shiyi. The framework thus represents an interface between the linguistic, the philosophical and the literary perspectives. The overall objectives of this thesis are: (1) to prove that the proposed theory of shiyi and its underlying framework are theoretically and practically valid by putting the framework to the test through thoroughly analysing a number of representative modern Chinese poems, and (2) to justify or refute the propriety of attributing modern poetry’s poorer reception to the alleged unintelligibility problem based on findings of the analysis of poetry mentioned in (1).

手稿本. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學. / Shou gao ben. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 505-506). / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / Chapter 第一章 --- 緒論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 資料──唐代詩評作品概述 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二節 --- 唐詩之分期 --- p.23 / Chapter 第二章 --- 太宗貞觀至中宗景龍 --- p.32 / Chapter 第一節 --- 上官儀 --- p.36 / Chapter 第二節 --- 四傑──王勃、楊炯、盧照鄰、駱賓王 --- p.39 / Chapter 第三節 --- 沈佺期、宗之問 --- p.46 / Chapter 第四節 --- 蘇味道、李嶠、崔融、杜審言 --- p.53 / Chapter 第五節 --- 陳子昂 --- p.59 / Chapter 第六節 --- 其他 --- p.65 / Chapter 第七節 --- 結論 --- p.71 / Chapter 第三章 --- 宗玄開元天寶 --- p.73 / Chapter 第一節 --- 張說、張九齡 --- p.77 / Chapter 第二節 --- 王昌齡、王之渙、李頎 --- p.84 / Chapter 第三節 --- 王維、孟浩然、劉長卿 --- p.95 / Chapter 第四節 --- 高適、岑參 --- p.114 / Chapter 第五節 --- 李白 --- p.122 / Chapter 第六節 --- 杜甫、鄭虔、蘇源明、薛據、嚴武 --- p.141 / Chapter 第七節 --- 錢起、郎士元 --- p.169 / Chapter 第八節 --- 其他 --- p.173 / Chapter 第九節 --- 結論 --- p.182 / Chapter 第四章 --- 肅宗至德至代宗大曆 --- p.188 / Chapter 第一節 --- 元結、孟雲卿 --- p.190 / Chapter 第二節 --- 韋應物、皎然 --- p.202 / Chapter 第三節 --- 大曆十子及李益 --- p.213 / Chapter 第四節 --- 王建 --- p.234 / Chapter 第五節 --- 其他 --- p.237 / Chapter 第六節 --- 結論 --- p.243 / Chapter 第五章 --- 德宗建中至憲宗元和 --- p.245 / Chapter 第一節 --- 白居易、劉禹鍚、元稹、李紳 --- p.249 / Chapter 第二節 --- 韓愈、孟郊、盧仝、賈島 --- p.296 / Chapter 第三節 --- 張籍、李賀 --- p.331 / Chapter 第四節 --- 柳宗元 --- p.349 / Chapter 第五節 --- 姚合 --- p.355 / Chapter 第六節 --- 其他 --- p.359 / Chapter 第七節 --- 結論 --- p.370 / Chapter 第六章 --- 穆宗長塵至文宗開成 --- p.372 / Chapter 第一節 --- 杜牧 --- p.374 / Chapter 第二節 --- 張祐 --- p.381 / Chapter 第三節 --- 許渾 --- p.388 / Chapter 第四節 --- 劉得仁 --- p.392 / Chapter 第五節 --- 李商隱、段成式、溫庭筠 --- p.396 / Chapter 第六節 --- 其他 --- p.410 / Chapter 第七節 --- 結論 --- p.415 / Chapter 第七章 --- 武宗會昌至昭宗天祐 --- p.418 / Chapter 第一節 --- 薛能 --- p.420 / Chapter 第二節 --- 皮日休、陸龜蒙 --- p.427 / Chapter 第三節 --- 司空圖 --- p.448 / Chapter 第四節 --- 方干 --- p.454 / Chapter 第五節 --- 鄭谷 --- p.462 / Chapter 第六節 --- 韋莊 --- p.467 / Chapter 第七節 --- 其他 --- p.472 / Chapter 第八節 --- 結論 --- p.488 / Chapter 第八章 --- 總結 --- p.490 / Chapter 第一節 --- 唐人評唐詩之標準 --- p.490 / Chapter 第二節 --- 唐詩之影響 --- p.502 / Chapter 附錄 --- 參考書目 --- p.505

陳煒舜. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (p. 501-528). / 中英文摘要. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Chen Weishun. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (p. 501-528).

梁永達. / 論文(碩士) -- 香港中文大學硏究院中國語言及文學學部, 1997. / 參考文獻: leaves 145-152. / Liang Yongda. / 引言 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一章 --- 延安詩歌興起的文化背景 --- p.4 / Chapter 1. --- 陝北農村的社區土壤 --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- 共產黨的政治文化 --- p.6 / Chapter 3. --- 三十年代的左翼文人傳統 --- p.9 / Chapter 第二章 --- 戰爭主題與文化元素的聚合 --- p.14 / Chapter 1. --- 戰爭詩歌的要求 --- p.14 / Chapter 2. --- 詩人隊伍的形成 --- p.21 / Chapter 3. --- 民粹主義與理想主義的悖論 --- p.24 / Chapter 第三章 --- 社會運動模式下的延安詩歌運動 及詩歌作品 --- p.39 / Chapter 1. --- 「詩歌朗誦運動」與「街頭詩運動」 --- p.40 / Chapter 2. --- 詩人下ˇёإ與詩歌中的「毛澤東主義」 --- p.54 / Chapter 第四章 --- 農民文化「薰陶」下的延安詩歌 --- p.88 / Chapter 1. --- 詩歌中的農民意識 --- p.88 / Chapter 2 --- .新詩體裁配合民歌形式 --- p.108 / Chapter 第五章 --- 新詩史與文化史中的抗戰延安詩歌 --- p.129 / Chapter 1. --- 從「五四」到延安的詩歌審美形態變異 --- p.129 / Chapter 2. --- 「民眾文藝復興」的歷史契機 --- p.137 / 結語：「政治性」文藝的重估 --- p.143 / 參考資料 --- p.145 / Chapter 1. --- 書籍 --- p.145 / Chapter 2. --- 論文 --- p.150 / Chapter 3. --- 報刊 --- p.151

Master of Arts / In the southwest corner of China, the confluence of cultural diversity and national integration have produced a new kind of voice in the Chinese language: an ethnic voice. Speaking fluently in the Chinese nation’s language and culturally beyond its Han foundations, minority ethnic writers or shaoshu minzu in China are inciting a challenge to the traditional conceptions of Chineseness. In the PRC, the re-imagining of the boundaries between ethnicity, nation, and the globe is being produced in ethnic voices that resist the monopolizing narratives of the CCP and the Han cultural center. Furthermore, in the West where the antiquated conception of China as a monolithic Other is still often employed, the existence of these ethnic voices of difference demands a (re)cognition of its multifaceted and interwoven ethnic, political, and social composition. Three ethnic poets from the southwest are examined in this thesis: Woeser (Tibetan), He Xiaozhu (Miao), and Jimu Langge (Yi). They represent the trajectory of ethnic voice in China along the paradigms of local/ethnic vision, national culture, and global connections. By being both within and outside the Chinese nation and culture, they express a hybrid struggle that exists within the collision of ethnic minority cultures and the Han cultural center. Like the hybridity of postcolonial literature, this is a collision that cannot be reduced to it parts, yet also privileges the glocal impetus of ethnically centered vision. The poets’ voices speak the voice of difference within China, the Chinese language, and Chineseness throughout the world.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [134]-140).

Thesis--Columbia University. / Vita. Bibliography: p. 158-169.

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