Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money (Sinica Leidensia, 86)

342 chapter nine As for literary technique, it employs an abundance of associative and imaginative imagery in a prose-poetic for ...

the lower body 343 Different from their predecessors, the Lower Body poets and authors like Yan Jun forgo claims to poethood as ...

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not at face value 345 CHAPTER TEN NOT AT FACE VALUE: XI CHUAN’S EXPLICIT POETICS The previous case studies have by and large foc ...

346 chapter ten between poets and other artists talking about their art. For painters, musicians and so on, the language in whic ...

not at face value 347 through time and include much literal citation so as to give the reader an immediate sense of the discours ...

348 chapter ten chemy of Poetry” (䆫℠⚐䞥ᴃ), written in 1992-1993 and published in Poetry Exploration in 1994 but substantially rev ...

not at face value 349 The poet is neither a commoner nor a noble; the poet is an intellectual, a thinking person. The poet is a ...

350 chapter ten Inspiration In accordance with the above injunction, Xi Chuan has more to say about various aspects of the writi ...

not at face value 351 Poetry’s Relation to Reality Another aspect of the writing process is poetry’s relation to reality. In “Al ...

352 chapter ten According to “Alchemy 2” (62), reality may be indispensable raw ma- terial, but it isn’t poetry: it needs to be ...

not at face value 353 as in ⶹ䆚ߚᄤ ‘intellectual’) and erudition as components of poetic technique, our attention is drawn to this ...

354 chapter ten uncontrollable outbursts of creativity or emotion, not even in the early “Explanation”: Please let me practice m ...

not at face value 355 Different classes of poetry occur in three dimensions: (1) resourcefulness, (2) wisdom, and (3) truth. But ...

356 chapter ten Do not declare that you have attained “authenticity”; “authenticity” is the poet’s nightmare, brought on by theo ...

not at face value 357 In the best possible case, if the poet talks nonsense, that is good poetry too. Baloney is permitted. One ...

358 chapter ten in the broadest sense—wisdom, beauty, truth, mystery—and its repre- sentation as human language, Xi Chuan adds a ...

not at face value 359 Later, however, the notion of poetry as religion from his early days is replaced by that of pseudo-religio ...

360 chapter ten 2. A Bigger Picture In The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, M H Abrams presents ...

not at face value 361 remarkable stylistic affinity in their poetry. He also points out that in- dividual poetics often belong i ...