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The reconciliation of natural sensibility and style and tone in late Ming Poetics: A case study of Tang Ruxun’s Huibian Tangshi shiji
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Date Issued
2018
Citation
Hui, K. Y. (2018 Jul 1). The reconciliation of natural sensibility and style and tone in late Ming Poetics: A case study of Tang Ruxun’s Huibian Tangshi shiji. 2018 22nd ASCJ Conference, International Christian University.
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
By the end of the sixteenth century, the Chinese poet Yuan Hongdao in his poetic theory strongly advocated the importance of xingling, a criterion highlighting a poet’s native sensibility and spontaneous inspiration. This panel will demonstrate the reception and innovation of the xingling theory from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century in China and Japan. We examine four approaches that provide instances of underexplored aspects of the xingling theory. Kin-yip Hui shows Tang Ruxun’s (1565–1623?) reconciliation of two popular criteria, xingling and gediao (poetic styles and tones) in his anthologization of Tang poetry. Wanming Wang explores Yuan Mei’s (1716–1798) interpretation of the historic authority of two criteria, xingling and xingqing (a poet’s nature and emotions), in his opposition to the division between Tang and Song poetry. Rintaro Goyama explicates how Yanada Zeigan (1672–1757) revised Yuan’s xingling theory in his poetry by his frequent application of historical allusions and his imaginative depictions. Matthew Fraleigh investigates how Koga Tōan (1788–1847) engaged in complex ways with the xingling theory, accepting it in part while also critiquing its exponents and reception in Japan. This panel showcases early modern Chinese and Japanese scholars’ shared attempts to develop the xingling theory by highlighting their differences, Chinese literati’s synthesis of previous poetics and Japanese literati’s reactions against their Chinese predecessors.
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