Historical Thought and Poetic Intention: Perspectives on Poetized History and War Narrative in Modern Times（1840-1945）

Autor: Yi-Hsuan Chiu, 邱怡瑄
Rok vydání: 2018
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 106
The purpose of this Dissertation is to introduce the classical genre writing tradition “poetized history” (Shi-shi 詩史) and how this genre tradition continued radiating its influence on literary writing after the vernacular movement during 1840–1945. The so-called “archaic Chinese” (文言), mainly the old-style poetry (舊體詩詞) herein, was considered to have disappeared in the history of literature ever since the vernacular movement. As a matter of fact, however, even the “archaic Chinese” was not the mainstream diction on the press, it still held its activeness in terms of reading and writing among the populace during the 1930s and 1940s. The old-style poetry handed down the heritage of Shi-shi within Chinese classical poetry (中國古典. Shi-shi, as a literary concept, took “poets as historians” and vice versa, thus created an ambiguous yet blending space of intertextuality between literature and historical writing. The writing tradition of Shi-shi evoked people’s history-based memories and emotions toward historical events, thereby brings about a profound impact by the use of traditional morality to evaluate current situation. It also created a correlation between historical context and that of the current time, and as a result, collective memories generated by Shi-shi affected the trend of public opinion during 1840–1945. Furthermore, Shi-shi stimulated the public’s unhappiness toward territorial loss and anger against weak national defense with their evaluation of each current event by traditional moral concept. The phenomena of “poets as historians” or “poetized history” also affected China’s diplomatic attitude and war strategy against Japan at that time. This dissertation contains six chapters: The first chapter ‘’Introduction” revealed the background and aims of this dissertation and purposed the theoretical framework of poetry as history. The first chapter is "Introduction", which explains the research background and the topics selected. Why do the "history of poetry" need to be placed in the “transformation era” situation? In modern times, it is necessary to overcome the entanglement caused by the impact of the new and old paradigm shifts, the separation of literature and history disciplines, and the new era of old-style poetry. This chapter attempts to propose several key points to solve the entanglement: first, the study of "history of poetry" should be combined with the examination of academic history, in order to change the concept of "history of poetry" to see the changes of academic paradigms; secondly, theoretical criticism should also consider "writing practice" The theoretical connotation of "history of poetry. The second chapter discusses classic works written by the famous poet Wang kai-yun. The title of the poem is " Yuan-ming-yuan Ci", which is about the Yuan-ming-yuan, a legendary royal garden burned and destroyed in the battle of 1860. This representative case makes us discover that there is a gap between the realistic appeal of poetry and historical facts. The question of how to reproduce "reality" in literature draws a deeper theoretical level of "history of poetry". Whether the writing of poetry contains historical elements or the writing of history itself has the intention of poetry. The third chapter explores the two poetry collections written in the 1940s. They are all those who did not write vernacular poems and still insist on writing classical poetry after a major change called the "poetry revolution." But their work has a completely different innovation from the traditional form in the form of publications and the presentation of poetry and historical information. These two cases are quite representative, which shows that the concept of poetry history not only inherits the traditional thoughts of Chinese poetry in the history of modern and modern literature, but also reflects the obvious changes in the trend of the times. The fourth chapter provides an important comparison object to think about the writing tradition of war poetry. Japan is also deeply influenced by traditional Chinese classical poetry. However, with the conflict between China and Japan, poetry writing has become another kind of war. This chapter presents poetry in response to different policy positions. Sometimes works are used to illustrate the state of peace and alliance between China and Japan. Sometimes it becomes a means of constructing a legitimate excuse for war. But this shows that poetry can be one of the ways to construct a historical perspective. The fifth chapter is to use the poems circulating in the newspaper as the scope of discussion. There is a close connection between the poetic history and the construction of historical memory. Therefore, poetry writing not only has the influence of literary classics, but also forms an invisible manipulation force in social and political aspects.
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