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The theoretical resources of Zhu Ziqing’s system of hermeneutics of modern poetry

—four aspects on reconstructing hermeneutics of modern Chinese poetry

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The modern theory of the hermeneutics of poetry proposed by Zhu Ziqing is an important part of the modern Chinese poetics. This essay aims to examine the foreign and the Chinese theoretical resources of Mr. Zhu’s thoughts of the hermeneutics of poetry and show that he has applied the modern critical theories to the interpretation of the ancient Chinese poetry. Zhu Ziqing established his own theory of the hermeneutics of poetry after absorbing the ideas of modern western criticism and the traditional poetry interpretation. In addition, he reflected on the theories and the methods of the traditional poetry interpretation, which means a modern reconstruction of the traditional Chinese hermeneutics of poetry.

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朱自清倡导的现代解诗学思想是中国现代诗学的重要收获。 笔者详细考察了朱自清解诗学思想的中外渊源, 以及朱自清把现代解诗学方法运用于古典诗歌文本解读的批评实践, 确凿地证明朱自清的现代解诗学思想是在对西方现代批评与传统解诗方法的双向吸收与融会中逐渐完成的, 而他对传统说诗理论与方法的厘清和反思, 同时也意味着传统解诗学的现代性重建。

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Translated from Zhongguo xiandai wenxue yanjiu congkan 中国现代文学研究丛刊 (Modern Chinese Literature Researches Series), 2005, (2): 1–36 by YAO Zhenjun, The School of International Business and Communications, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics

Sun Yushi 孙玉石 (1935–) was born in Haicheng, Liaoning. He entered the Chinese department of Peking University in 1955 and graduated with a master degree in 1964. He is now a professor and doctor supervisor in Peking University and he engages himself in the studies of the history of modern Chinese literature, the history of the modern poetry, new criticism and the works by Lu Xun. His major publications include The Study of Wild Grass, The Study of the Early Chinese Symbolistic Poetry, The Art of Modern Poetry in China, The History and the Discussion of the Modern Chinese Poetic Trend, The Realistic and the Philosophical: A Interpretation of Wild Grass by Lu Xun and The Theory and the Practice of Modern Chinese Hermeneutics of Poetry. In addition, he also compiled The Guidance to Modern Chinese Poetry and published more than one hundred essays in the prestigious academic journals.

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Sun, Y. The theoretical resources of Zhu Ziqing’s system of hermeneutics of modern poetry. Front. Lit. Stud. China 3, 24–63 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11702-009-0002-0

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