A Study of Chin Sheng-Tan’s Hermeneutics on Du Fu''s Poetics

• Main Authors: Xyuan-hwei Liao, 廖宣惠
• Other Authors: Chen-nien Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/w3d27q

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 中國文學系研究所 === 97 === The thesis mainly discusses the hermeneutic system on Du Fu’s poetics, which was established after close analysis of Du Fu’s poetry by a literary critic Chin Sheng-Tang (the end of the Ming and beginning of the Qing dynasties).Among all Tang poets Chin Sheng-Tang admired Du Fu the most for his poetics of seven line stanzas, which was viewed by Chin Sheng-Tang as an epitome of high aesthetical value and poetical canon. The critic proposed a method of decompositional analysis for studying Du Fu’s poetry: he saw the interconnection between the title of the poem and it’s content, and then decomposed the poem into small pieces, conducting close reading, so that the poem was seen as having three level structure from bigger to smaller ‘the level of passages, sentences and characters’. First, we start with looking at ‘other interpretation’ from the describing trend of hermeneutics on Du Fu’s poetics prevailing during that period of time, pointing out what was the main opinion of the literary critics, and comparing it with the one of Chin Sheng-Tang’s, and looking at his status among the circles of literary critics. Then we discuss the Chin Sheng-Tang ‘s ‘self interpretation’ , explaining what kind of reader and critic he was. After that we provide the review of poetry reading methods and horizon in literary criticism, explaining how to use the method in literary analysis. After Chin Sheng-Tang’s method of literary criticism becomes clear to us, we look how his caesura method is used to analyze structure of Du Fu’s poetry. Through the caesura analysis we use reader’s, author’s and literary works point of view to find out whether this method is appropriate and whether it can reveal the spirit of that age or is it simply an over-reading. In the end we provide the conclusion about the effectiveness of the hermeneutic system, proposed by Chin Sheng-Tang.