Chinese poetry, emotion, landscape, yi, yijing, Wang Fuzhi, Chantal Chen, Jean-Pierre Diény, CNRS, poetic creation, classical Chinese aesthetics
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A comparative study of Chantal Chen and Jean-Pierre Diény's works on Chinese poetry, exploring the relationship between emotion and landscape.
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[...] For this, we will summarize the text before proposing an analysis. 2.1 Summary of the text To begin Jean-Pierre Diény proposes a critical review of Maria Rohrer's book, dedicated to the motif of the cloud in the work of Tao Yuanming6. In fact Rohrer shows that 'the cloud ( [...]
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[...] For her, the true poet imposes nothing, he absorbs himself in the natural universe that surrounds him, allowing then a word to emerge that surpasses the individual. While Rohrer via Diény leans towards a progressive evolution of the gaze on nature. Instead of fully merging with nature, we assist to the manifestation of a sharpened consciousness of the natural world. In short, one could say that Chen mainly approaches the birth of poetic emotion, while Rohrer analyzes rather the poetic expression with an even existential approach. [...]
