2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Sorrowfulness in Tang Dynasty Literature
| Project/Area Number |
16520200
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA |
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Principal Investigator |
MATSUMOTO Hajime University of Tsukuba, Graduate school of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor, 大学院・人文社会科学研究科, 教授 (40128814)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | sorrowfulnesss / pleasure / evil / anti-world / ruins / rest / sickness / poet |
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| Research Abstract |
What we have achieved is as follows :
Meng-Jiao wroted the poetry of punishment of the wise. This is a paradoxical way of proving how he is right. This showed his self-punishment.
Meng-Jiao wroted the poetry of poverty. He found pleasure in sorrow.
Meng-Jiao thought highly of evilness. He expressed his own death in his poems.
Meng-Jiao depicted the anti-world in his poetry. This means the rebelliousness to the Heaven. For this reason, he had to pay for his own rebelliousness. He shut himself up in the prison of poetry. This means his punishment.
Jia-dao never gives up his hope even in the difficult circumstance. He has his unconquerable spirit.
Jia-dao wrote the beauty of ruins in his poetry. In the Mid-Tang Dynasty the people has a sense of beauty different from one in the High-Tang Dynasty. The beauty of ruins reflects the sense of beauty of the Mid-Tang Dynasty.
Jia-dao wrote the poetry of the sickness. Sickness is an indication of an intellectual person in the Mid-Tang Dynasty. Desire to take a rest is behind such a cultural phenomenon.
Jia-dao described very small things in his poetry, following Du-Fu.
Since Du-Fu, writting poetry became a very high-status business. Living a life as a poet became a purpose of the intellectual. Meng-Jiao and Jia-dao were born in such a time. They lived their lives as a poet.
Su-Shi of Song Dynasty said, "Meng-Jiao cold, Jia-dao thin." This expression can be regarded not as their censure, but as their praise.
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Research Products
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