The poet and his biographer-The view of literature which Lu Zang-yong cherished and the formation of Chen Zi-ang

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  • 詩人と傳記作者 : 盧藏用が抱いた文學觀と陳子昂の形象化
  • 詩人と傳記作者--盧藏用が抱いた文學觀と陳子昴の形象化
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  • 詩人と伝記作者 : 盧蔵用が抱いた文学観と陳子昂の形象化

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The writer in early Tang dynasty, Chen Zi-ang 陳子昂 is ordinary regarded as a pioneer of the ancient style prose's revival. The writers who embodied middle Tang dynasty, for example Han Yu 韓愈, Liu Zong-yuan 柳宗元 already had cognition of this kind. The occasion of this cognition is owing to ChenBo-yuwenjixu 陳伯玉文集序 and Chenshibiezhuan 陳氏別傳 which was written by the intimate friend of Chen Zi-ang, Lu Zang-yong 盧藏用. The former is the preface of Chen Zi-ang's collected works, the latter is the first biography of Chen Zi-ang. These two article is included in Chen Zi-ang's collected works which was edited by Lu Zang-yong. The collected works spread so quickly, these two article must spread at the same time. It is very interesting that no writer in Tang dynasty mentioned Chen Zi-ang's own theory of literature, on the contrary, they repeatedly quoted the preface of his collected works written by Lu Zang-yong. Therefore I think that, for studying what place Chen Zi-ang occupies in the literary history of Tang dynasty, we must investigate the literary theory of Lu Zang-yong in the first. ChenBo-yuwenjixu divided the Chinese literary history into three era, i)before Dong jin, ii)from Song Qi to early Tang dynasty, and iii)Chen Zi-ang's age. It appreciated i), blamed ii), and considered iii) as the period of literary revival. This view was influenced by sanbianshuo 三變說 in Songshu Xie Ling-yun zhuanlun 宋書謝靈運傳論. Chenshibiezhuan described Chen Zi-ang as an unlucky man, his life as a tragic succession. The same argument applies to both article is an idealization of Chen Zi-ang which was based on Confucianism. The former said Chen Zi-ang was an inheritor of Dao 道, the latter appointed that his writing wasn't for the sake of its own, was a mean of stating his political view. These advocation were concerned with Confuciasm orthodoxy and zaidaoshuo 載道說. I think that why Chen Zi-ang gained the highly recognition of writers in Tang dynasty was due to such a literary view of Lu Zang-yong and his formation of Chen Zi-ang which was based on the traditional opinion.

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  • 中國文學報

    中國文學報 64 1-33, 2002-04

    CHINESE LITERATURE ASSOCIATION, DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, FACULTY OF LETTERS, KYÔTO UNIVERSITY

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