The Encounter Between François Cheng and Contemporary French Poetry

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2016, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (3): 161-170.

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The Encounter Between François Cheng and Contemporary French Poetry

Wu Chunfeng

the Department of French, Tianjin Foreign Studies University

Online:2016-05-25 Published:2017-09-29
About author:Wu Chunfeng is a lecturer in the Department of French, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, with research interests in modern and contemporary French poetry.

Abstract

Abstract: François Cheng is the first person of Chinese origin elected to the French Academy. He has authored creative writings of poetry and fiction, with both Chinese Daoist philosophical wisdom and Western logical reasoning. This paperattempts to adopt a synchronic perspective and the thematic approach of criticism to explore how Cheng's poetry encounters contemporary French poetry so as to find out the common spirit behind the two cultures. The shared concept ofliterary writingbetween Cheng and the French poets is investigated from three aspects of the unknownness of the world, feeling and its subject, and the art of in-between writing so as to locate Cheng's poetry among contemporary poetry and outline the development of contemporary French poetry and locate Cheng among contemporary poets.

Key words:

encounter, unknownness, Philippe Jaccottet, emotion, modest attainment

Wu Chunfeng. The Encounter Between François Cheng and Contemporary French Poetry[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2016, 36(3): 161-170.

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