Abstract
Issues of the public and the private have been discussed thoroughly in the history of thought, while it is yet to be developed in the field of literary history. Zhang Xuecheng's idea of "publicness of language" can be regarded as an inspiring beginning. From Zhang Xuecheng's perspective, the issues of the public and the private of classical Chinese poetics can be discussed from three dimensions, namely, ownership, originality, and authorship. The tendency of privatization and the balance between the public and the private in classical Chinese poetics is clear in the discussions on the formation of and response to ownership, the pursuit of originality and the poetics of self-satisfaction, and the authority of authors and poetic community.
First Page
97
Last Page
109
Recommended Citation
Yan, Qingyu. 2019. "Connotations and Characteristics of the Public and the Private in Classical Chinese Poetics: A Case Study of Zhang Xuecheng's Idea "Publicness of Language"." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.97-109. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/6
