Reconsidering the Concepts of Nature in the Chinese Humanistic Tradition-- Nature in Chinese Medieval Poetics
Date Issued
2003-10-31T05:53:40Z
Date
2003-10-31T05:53:40Z
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DOI
912411H002067AD
Abstract
The project covers the idea of nature as presented in poetry from Six Dynastiesto Tang Dynasty and focuses on a special series of poems. The aim is to delineate the spectrum of nature in Medieval poetry. In Chinese humanist
tradition, “nature” usually refers to the way things are in itself, that is,
the mode of existence of things in accordance with their essence. Hence human
beings are in nature; humans and nature are in reciprocal immersion. The idea
is to go beyond the dichotomy of mind and body, of the mental and the material, so as to position oneself within the extremes of “nature as perceived by an isolated subject” and “nature as objectivist materiality”. To know this
relation is to experience it in the embodied way. Based on this methodological consideration, the project scrutinizes how each poet perceives and embodies the diversity of nature’s way, be it in allusions to everyday objects, seasons and
fests, traveling and sighting, intimate observing and playing. And then an attempt is made to use these analyses to rethink the distinctions and mutual
references among the traditional poetic genres such as landscape poetry,
pastoral poetry, naturalist poetry, garden poetry, and immortal poetry and metaphysical poetry, and to depict the trajectory of nature in Medieval poetry.
The project will proceed in a three-year period. This first year focuses on the
body and nature in Tao Yuan-ming’s poetry, exploring the connection between
“bodily space” and “returning to nature” in Tao’s pastoral poetry, and
drawing on “associative effects”, “inter-flux of Chi” and “splendid
release of alcohol” to explicate the reciprocal immersion of body and nature
in Tao’s poetry.
Subjects
Chinese Medieval
Six Dynasties
Tang Dynasty
Poetics
Nature
Landscape Poetry
Pastoral Poetry
Body and Space
Tao Yuang-Ming
Publisher
臺北市：國立臺灣大學中國文學系暨研究所
Type
report
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