8th Book Sharing: "Loneliness" from Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: A Phenomenon of the World
Upcoming Event
| Introduction | To encourage students to read more and engage with faculty members, the New Era International Education Institute has organized a series of reading sessions led by academic staff, aiming to facilitate direct academic exchanges through guided reading and discussions. The eighth session will be led by Associate Professor Dr. Pua Shiau Chen. All are welcome to participate in the discussion or attend as observers. |
| Speaker | Associate Professor Dr. Pua Shiau Chen (International Education Institute) |
| Reading Material | Stephen Owen; translated by Chen Xiaoliang: "Traditional Chinese Poetry and Poetics: A Phenomenon of the World," Chapter 8 "Solitude," Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2013. |
| Content Overview | In this book, Stephen Owen proposes and elaborates on the significant thesis of China's "non-fictional" poetic tradition. Borrowing Ernest Fenollosa's famous assertion that Chinese characters are the ideal language for poetry, one might say that Owen discovers how Chinese poetry within this non-fictional tradition represents the ideal form of poetry—one rooted in the diversity of nature, thereby subverting the Western literary tradition's view of poetry as a "second nature" divinely crafted by the poet. To read Chinese poetry, one must abandon the notion of analyzing it purely as a linguistic construct. Instead, one should dwell within the contemporaneous poetic context to listen for its authentic voice. |
| Seminar Information | Date: November 30, 2023 (Thursday) Time:7.30pm - 9.00pm Platform: ZOOM Registration Link: https://tinyurl.com/bp4uyeav *Free registration, due by November 29, 2023. |
