The Expolore in Su-shi’s Ji-yu and Return Based on the Themelines of Time and Space
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Li, Tian-Xiang
Abstract
The dissertation explores two themes in the life of Su-shi---Ji-yu and his wish to return. Ji-yu means his reflections for his life; his wish to return means a life-long expectations and eagerness. Both of the two themes are deeply connected. Ji-yu is an expression about constant migration in his lifespan, which has an immense impact on his desire to return. The desire to return concludes a trip back to his hometown, and a search for an ideal style of life.
Exploring the two themes ---Ji-yu and his wish to return---involves greatly with time and space. There are two main levels about Ju-yu consciousness. For one level, the world is a temporary residence, in which we consider our life fleeting and therefore we suffer from the huge anxiety of time passing. As a result, we will take it into consideration that where we should put our effort into. Sh-shi is always caught in a dilemma of either career perusing or return. Solving the anxiety of time is associated with the concepts--- Wu-hwa and Da-hwa, which has a connection with the philosophical resource of Ji-yu. For the other level, Su-shi will use the concept of space to discuss the fate that people transfer from one place to another. The consciousness of space involves two directions. One direction is about the situation that when he enters political arena, he is faced with oppression and limitation, which causes his constant migration, which enhance his feelings of Ji-yu and anticipation for return. Scholars used to explain his political fate from the aspects of political factions and his righteous personality. The dissertation focuses on political organization and culture. After Su-shi starts his official career, he is in face of a space of hierarchy. With the analysis of the rules of the operation in the space, I observe his psychological state and behavior to present how he deals with the space. The other direction is about his rebuilding his home after losing his original home. Ji-yu is the topic of failing to settle himself in every space that he falls into. Meanwhile, return is the search for a home to settle himself. Thus, how he constructs a security place is a theme worth researching. Many papers put emphasis on how he conquers troubles form his environment and ignored how surroundings influences him. My dissertation focuses on solving the problem.
Based on themelines of time and space, doing research on Ji-yu and return, I create an explanatory system in order to analyze his sense of life. Moreover, we can understand his process of struggle with difficulties in life and a journey of no return.
Subjects
Su-shi
time
space
Ji-yu
return
Type
thesis
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