FU & Literary Critics

19 Março 2018, 14:00 Elisabetta Colla Rosado Coelho David

Five major genres in Chinese poetry: 

1.shī 詩 (origin/Tang) 

2.sāo 騷(*)

 3.fù 賦 (Han) 

4.cí 詞 (Chu/Song) 

5.qǔ 曲 (Yuan/theatre) 

The FU 赋, a typical Chinese prosodic form. (Ballad of Mulan and Luoshen fu)

Literary critics - Liu Xie and wénxīn diāolóng 文心雕龍.


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  • Cai, Zong-qi. 2001. A Chinese literary mind: culture, creativity and rhetoric in Wenxin Diaolong. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press. (pdf. enclosed)