简介:历代牡丹赋今可见者近三十篇,唐前两篇,唐代两篇,宋代七篇,元代一篇,明代六篇,清代十篇。其类别可分为二,一是富贵牡丹赋,以高调颂赞为主,多直接铺写牡丹秾丽姿色、富贵典雅;一是清丽牡丹赋,属于抒情言志之作,多非有意为文,而是在猝然感发的机遇下铺陈叙事、借花抒情,往往能在姿色之外,睹见韵致风神、气骨品性。历时观之,盛世多颂美之声,得意多灿然之花;衰世多抒情之赋,不遇多矜持之丽。全文分作唐前“养在深闺人未识”、唐代“花开时节动京城”、宋代“牡丹尤为天下奇”、元代“唐宋精神的融合”、明代“繁华一去不可复”、清代(上)“浓艳依然带露华”、清代(下)“薄醉盈盈一回首”七个章节,对历代牡丹赋之创作予以考证、梳理,解析赋作之艺术特色,阐发作者之精神情怀,探究艺术流变之内在规律。
简介:Womenwritersasananalyticalcategoryhassincethelate1990sgainedconsiderabletractioninthestudiesofpre-modernChineseliterature,withtranslations,anthologies,andthematicexplorationssurfacinganeweveryfewyearsineithermonographsoreditedvolumes.Referencetofeministliterarycriticismasananalyticalframework,however,isstillafairlyrecentdevelopment—thatis,untilRonaldEgan’sdefinitiveworkunderreviewhereonthemostwell-knownfemalepoetoftheentireChinesetradition,LiQingzhao李清照(1084-ca.1155).Notonlyisthis11-chapter,422-pagetreatmentofasinglewomanafirstinEnglishscholarship,Egan’stheoreticalstancealsomarksadeparturefromearlierworksthatplacetheirsubjectmattersinamorenativecontext.ThatalonemakesTheBurdenofFemaleTalentamustreadforallstudentsofChineseliterature.Moreover,throughoutthewholebookEganneverallowstheoreticaldiscussiontoovershadowhisfocusedanalysesofLiQingzhaoandthecircumstancesandchallengesshefacedasawomanwriter,thusretainingthedistinctiveappealofthebooktothemoretraditionalreadershipofSinology.Thisisnottodiscount,however,Egan’sconversancewithfeministcriticism;infact,his“substantialdebt”(p.8)toitisveryrecognizable,sincetheunderlyingapproachesarefullysubsumableundermuchofthepreoccupationsandassumptionsoffeministliterarytheory—and,consequently,susceptibletocritiquesofthetheoryingeneral.