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Integration and Innovation: the Construction of the Aesthetics of Poetry for the Future, also on the Relationship between Traditional Poetics and Modern Poetics

Zhang Lvkun, Wei Shiyi   

  1. the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University (Shanghai)
  • Online:2017-11-25 Published:2017-10-18
  • About author:Zhang Lvkun is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University (Shanghai). His research interests are comparative studies of Chinese and Western literary criticism and Chinese literary theory. Wei Shiyi is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University (Shanghai). Her research interests are Western literary theory and culture studies.

Abstract: Modern poetry has a history of more than one hundred years, during which period China's social form and cultural symptoms have undergone significant changes. Centering on the inheritance and rebellion of traditions, the development of modern poetry is essentially categorized within the construction of new "tradition", no matter how it assumes social responsibilities of materialization, or turns into "modernity" affected by Western cultures. It is expected that modern poetry and poetics get their legitimacy through practice in the real world situation, on the basis of an integrative vision and an open historical context of the era which brings opportunities as well as challenges. In this respect, the construction of the aesthetics of modern poetry for the future lies in integration, innovation, and a broad theoretical mind, which can provide strong theoretical support in the context of historical depth, cross-culture, and futurity.

Key words: integration, cross-cultural, context, new poetics, tradition