"Lament" as a Genre in Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and Selections of Refined Literature
Abstract
Liu Xie's Literary Mind and Xiao Tong's Selections of Refined Literature had different definitions and understanding of the genre to lament. Liu Xie's aim was to distinguish different style, so he defined the lament as a genre with the features shown in the earlier writings such as Pan Yue's lamentations over pre-mature deaths, and he did not include into the genre the later stylistic development. Xiao Tong took Pan Yue's more ritualistic Elegy for His Wife as an example for lament style. The main reason behind their differences lies in the fact that Liu Xie's expounding covered only to the West Jin Dynasty when lamentation was not a type of popular ritual writing, while Xiao Tong's time had more ritualistic elegies.
First Page
192
Last Page
199
Recommended Citation
Zhao, Junling. 2015. ""Lament" as a Genre in Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and Selections of Refined Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (4): pp.192-199. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss4/1
