TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction: Emotion, Patterning, and Visuality in Chinese Literary Thought and Beyond
AU - CAI, Zong-Qi
AU - WU, Shengqing
PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - Emotion or qing 情 has been identified at the core of Chinese thinking about literature, such that “lyrical tradition” becomes an encompassing concept for many to distinguish Chinese literary tradition from its Western counterpart.1 In Chinese literary thought, emotion is consistently conceptualized through verbal patterning and visual manifestation. This convergence has become synonymous with poetry making: emotion externalizes itself in patterned sounds and words, and this language patterning in turn gives rise to visual manifestations, whether in the play of music, the spectacle of dance, or an image of the external worlds of man and nature. Perhaps in no other critical tradition can we find a conception of poetry making so consistently and thoroughly grounded in such a dynamic interplay and merging of emotion, verbal patterning, and visualization.
AB - Emotion or qing 情 has been identified at the core of Chinese thinking about literature, such that “lyrical tradition” becomes an encompassing concept for many to distinguish Chinese literary tradition from its Western counterpart.1 In Chinese literary thought, emotion is consistently conceptualized through verbal patterning and visual manifestation. This convergence has become synonymous with poetry making: emotion externalizes itself in patterned sounds and words, and this language patterning in turn gives rise to visual manifestations, whether in the play of music, the spectacle of dance, or an image of the external worlds of man and nature. Perhaps in no other critical tradition can we find a conception of poetry making so consistently and thoroughly grounded in such a dynamic interplay and merging of emotion, verbal patterning, and visualization.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85072013948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1215/23290048-7496807
DO - 10.1215/23290048-7496807
M3 - Editorial/Preface (Journal)
SN - 2329-0048
VL - 6
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
JF - Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture
IS - 1
ER -