英文摘要 |
This article seeks answers to a series of questions crucial to our understanding of Chinese pentasyllabic poetry. What new vocabulary dominates pentasyllabic poetry but is scarcely employed in earlier tetrasyllabic poetry? What new syntactic constructions coexist with the unique 2+3 rhythm of pentasyllabic poetry? How do these new syntactic constructions broaden the scope of external depiction and emotional expression? How do they enable a new mode of artistic creation and give rise to new poetic structures and textures? How do all these formal innovations help to bring forth new poetic visions? In addressing these questions, the author draws from both traditional Chinese poetics and modern linguistic theories in a broad array of critical ways (quantitative data analysis, comparative source studies, close reading, etc.) to study the "Nineteen Old Poems," themost representative body of early pentasyllabic poetry. The analytical findings are presented along with the intuitive remarks made by traditional Chinese critics, in the hope of bringing the two into mutual illumination and elevating the studies from impressive criticism to systematic theoretical analysis. |