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ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2478-0860
Access Type
Campus-Only Access for Five (5) Years
Document Type
thesis
Degree Program
Chinese
Degree Type
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Year Degree Awarded
2019
Month Degree Awarded
September
Abstract
The imagistic language of Tang poetry can be defined as the language of Tang poetry that presents directly the immediate sensory/emotive experience, which is the early, unprocessed inner response of an external experience that involves what is previously unknown. The primary purpose of my thesis is to explore a theoretical definition of two characteristics: “now-ness” and “continuity” in the immediate sensory/emotive experience as well as to explore how the two characteristics are generally demonstrated in the imagistic language of Tang poems. Through the demonstration of seven individual analyses of Tang poems and their translations from the perspective of now-ness and continuity, this thesis also intends to foster now-ness and continuity as a particular perspective that assists us with the reading, understanding and translation of the imagistic language of Tang poetry.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/14217990
First Advisor
David K. Schneider
Recommended Citation
Du, Mei, "READING AND TRANSLATING “NOW-NESS” AND “CONTINUITY” IN THE IMAGISTIC LANGUAGE OF TANG POEMS" (2019). Masters Theses. 828.
https://doi.org/10.7275/14217990
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/828