2. Chen Qinghui 陳慶輝. Zhongguo shixue 中國詩學. Taipei: Wenshizhe, 1994.

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1 16:165:532 Chinese Poetry and Poetics 中国诗词及诗学 Rutgers University, Fall 2013 M 4:50pm-7:30pm, Scott Hall 332 Instructor: Professor Ching-I Tu Office Hours: MW 1:30-2:30pm (Scott Hall 222) citu@rci.rutgers.edu Phone: Syllabus Course Description: Literary study of Chinese classical poetry and poetics from early times to the end of the nineteenth century, with emphasis on major Chinese poets and Chinese poetic criticism on poetry as a literary genre. 中国早期到 19 世纪末诗词及诗学研究, 重点在主要诗集诗人及中国诗词评论 Course Objectives: 1. To introduce students to the development, periods, and classification of Chinese poetry as well as the major poets and their representative writings 介绍中国诗词发展时期分类以及代表诗人和作品 2. To help students develop the ability to understand, appreciate, and analyze Chinese poetry 培养诗词阅读欣赏及分析能力 3. To discuss the position of Chinese poetry in Chinese literature and its contributions to world literature and comparative literature 讨论中国诗词在中国文学的地位和它对世界文学和比较文学的贡献 4. To study various theories about the nature of poetry and criticism on important aspects of Chinese poetry and major Chinese poets 讨论有关诗词性质各种学说以及对中国诗词和诗人的评论 Required Textbooks: 1. Readings in Classical Chinese Literature (RCCL) 中国古典文学选读, Rutgers Chinese Program, New Brunswick, N.J., revised edition, This book an be downloaded for free from the course sakai site 2. Cai Zong-qi, ed. How to Read Chinese Poetry. A Guided Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, (ISBN: ) This book is available for purchase at the Rutgers University Bookstore (Gateway Transit Building, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901). 3. Liu Dajie 劉大杰. Zhongguo wenxue fazhan shi 中國文學發展史. 3 vols. Hong Kong: Sanlian, Available in electronic format on the course sakai site. Recommended Textbooks: 1. Cai Zong-qi, ed. How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook. New York: Columbia University Press, (ISBN: ) This book is available for purchase at the Rutgers University Bookstore (Gateway Transit Building, 100 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901). Sound files of poems are available for free at: 2. Chen Qinghui 陳慶輝. Zhongguo shixue 中國詩學. Taipei: Wenshizhe,

2 3. James J. Y. Liu, The Art of Chinese Poetry, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (A Chinese translation of the book is available under the title 中國詩學, Taipei 1977.) 4. James J. Y. Liu. Theories of Chinese Literature. Chicago: Chicago University Press, (A Chinese translation of this book is available under the title 中國文學理論, Taipei, 1981.) Course Requirements: 1. Attendance and participation in class discussion 2. Oral report on a topic included in the syllabus 3. A research term paper (15-20 pages) based on the oral report 4. Final Examination Semester Schedule RCCL = Readings in Classical Chinese Literature, Rutgers Chinese Program, New Brunswick, N.J., revised edition, /9 Introduction: Chinese Language, Literature, and Poetry Liu, Art of Chinese Poetry, pp ; How to Read Chinese Poetry, pp. 1-9; François Cheng, Chinese Poetic Writing, pp.3-42; Keightly, Origins of Writing ; Chu Yu-kuang, Chinese Language ; David Hawkes, Chinese Poetry and the English Reader 9/16 Earliest Chinese Poetry I: Shi Jing 詩經 (The Book of Poetry) Readings: RCCL pp. 2-3; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Yu, Imagery pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, pp /23 Earliest Chinese Poetry II: Chu Ci 楚辭 (The Songs of the South) Readings: RCCL pp. 3-5; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Hawkes, Songs pp. 8-34; Yu, Imagery pp ; Ma, Chuci xuan pp. 1-44; Liu, Fazhan shi pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, pp /30 The Yue Fu 樂府 (the Music Bureau Poetry) of the Han Dynasty Readings: RCCL pp ; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Frankel, Yue-fu Poetry, pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 1 pp , ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, pp /7 Five-Word and Seven-Word Poetry (Wu yan shi 五言詩 and Qi yan shi 七言詩 ) Form, Content, and Representative Poems Readings: RCCL pp , 46; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Kao, Nineteen Old Poems ; Watson, Chinese Poetry pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, pp /14 Chinese Landscape Poetry (Shanshui shi 山水詩 ) and the Beginnings of Chinese Poetic Criticism Form, Content, and Representative Poets Readings: RCCL pp ; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Chang, Six Dynasties Poetry pp. 3-78; Liu, Fazhan shi pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, pp , ; Zhong 2

3 Rong, 诗品 ; Liu Xie, 文心雕龍, juan 1: 原道, 宗經, 辯騷, juan 2: 明詩 ; Guo, Zhongguo wenxue piping shi, pp /21 The Early Period of Tang Poetry in Modern Style 近體詩 : The Form of lüshi 律詩 and jueju 絕句 Representative Poets: Wang Bo 王勃, Chen Zi-ang 陳子昂, Wang Wei 王維 Readings: RCCL pp. 51; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp , 73-79; Yu, Wang Wei pp. 1-42; Owen, Anthology pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, vol. 2, pp /28 The Golden Period of Tang Poetry in the Modern Style I: Representative Poet: Li Bai 李白 Readings: RCCL pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp ; Owen, Anthology pp ; Varsano, Banished Immortal pp. 1-32; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, vol. 2, pp /4 The Golden Period of Tang Poetry in the Modern Style II: Representative Poet: Du Fu 杜甫 Readings: RCCL pp ; Owen, Anthology pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp ; [2 Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, vol. 2, pp ; Chou, Reconsidering Tu Fu, pp ; Mei and Kao, Tu Fu s Autumn Meditations, pp /11 The Middle Period of Tang Poetry in Modern Style: Representative Poet: Bai Juyi 白居易 and Yuan Zhen 元稹 Readings: RCCL pp ; Owen, Anthology pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp ; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, vol. 2, pp /18 The Late Period of Tang Poetry in Modern Style and Criticism of Tang Poetry Representative Poets: Li He 李賀, Li Shangyin 李商隱 Readings: RCCL pp. 58; Owen, Anthology pp , ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp ; Hawkes, Late T ang, ; Liu, Li Shang-yin pp. 3-34; Luo, Zhongguo gudai wenxue, vol.2, ; Yan Yu, Canglang shihua; Wang and Gu, Zhongguo wenxue piping shi, pp /25 The Lyric Poetry from Late Tang to Northern Song Origin, Form, and Representative Poets: Wei Zhuang 韋莊, Li Yu 李煜, Su Shi 蘇軾 Readings: RCCL pp , 72; Owen, Anthology pp , ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp , ; Chang, Evolution, pp , , ; Long, Mingjia, pp ; Thanksgiving Recess 12/2 The Lyric Poetry of Southern Song and Further Discussion of Poetic Criticism Form, Content, and Representative Poets: Li Qingzhao 李清照, Lu You 陸游, Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, Jiang Kui 姜夔 ) Readings: RCCL pp ; Owen, Anthology pp , ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 2 pp ; Lin, Chiang K uei pp ; Wang Guowei, Renjian cihua; Tu, Poetic Remarks in the Human World 12/9 The Music Lyrics in Chinese Drama of the Yuan Period Form, Content, and Representative Poets: Guan Hanqing 關漢卿, Ma Zhiyuan 馬致遠, Bai Pu 白樸 Readings: RCCL pp. 82; How to Read Chinese Poetry pp ; Liu, Fazhan shi vol. 3 pp

4 Reference Material: Cai, Zong-qi. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, Chang, K ang-i Sun. Six Dynasties Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, The Evolution of Chinese Tz u Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Chaves, Jonathan, trans. and ed. The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry: Yüan, Ming, Ch ing Dynasties ( ). New York: Columbia University Press, Chou, Eva Shan. Reconsidering Tu Fu. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Chu, Yu-kuang. Chinese Language. In An Introduction to Chinese Civilization, ed. John Meskill. New York: Columbia University Press, Frankel, Hans. Yue-fu Poetry. In Cyril Birch, ed. Studies in Chinese Literary Genres. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974: Frodsham, J.D., trans. and ed. An Anthology of Chinese Verse: Han, Wei, Chin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Oxford: Clarendon Press, Guo Shaoyu 郭紹虞. Zhongguo wenxue piping shi 中國文學批評史, 2 vols. Tianjin: Baihua wenyi, Zhongguo lidai wenlun xuan 中國歷代文論選, 4 vols. Shanghai: Guji, Hawkes, David. The Songs of the South. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Chinese Poetry and the English Reader. In Raymond Dawson, ed. The Legacy of China New York: Oxford University Press, 1964, pp Poems of the Late Tang. Harmondsworth: Penguin, Huang Yongwu 黃永武. Zhongguo Shixue 中國詩學. 4 vols. Taipei: Juliu, Kao, Yu-kung. The Nineteen Old Poems. In Willard Peterson, ed. The Power of Culture: Studies in Chinese Cultural History. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1994: Keightly, David. Art, Ancestors, and the Origins of Chinese Writing. Representations 56 (Autumn, 1996): Lin, Shuen-fu, and Stephen Owen, ed. The Vitality of the lyric voice: Shih Poetry From the Late Han To T'ang. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Lin, Shuen-fu. The Transformation of the Chinese Lyrical Tradition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Liu, Dajie 劉大杰. Zhongguo wenxue fazhan shi 中國文學發展史. 3 vols. Hong Kong: Sanlian, Liu, James J.Y. Chinese Theories of Literature. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Language, Paradox, Poetics: A Chinese Perspective. Princeton: Princeton University Press, Poetry of Li Shang-yin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, The Interlingual Critic: Interpreting Chinese Poetry. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Liu, Wu-chi and Irving Lo, ed. Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. Garden City: Anchor Books, Liu Xie 劉勰, 文心雕龍. Ed. Zhou Zhenfu 周振甫. Taibei: Jinxiu, Lo, Irving Yucheng, and William Schultz, ed. Waiting for the Unicorn: Poems and Lyrics of China s Last Dynasty, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, Long Yusheng 龙榆生. Tang Song mingjia ci xuan 唐宋名家词选. Shanghai: Guji, 1983 Luo Zongqiang 罗宗强, ed. Zhongguo gudai wenxue fazhan shi 中国古代文学发展史. 3 vols. Ma Maoyuan 马茂元. Chuci xuan 楚辞选. Beijing: Renmin wenxue,

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