Abstract:

This paper attempts to discuss the theory and its method of a poetics, namely, Chinese poetics with cultural mind. As an academic paradigm, Chinese poetics with cultural mind combines “culture” with “mind”. In the constructive exploration of Chinese literary theory in the post-May Fourth era, it tries to develop a discourse from traditional poetics. It can serve as a theoretical framework for reading, researching, teaching, making and promoting Chinese poetry teaching. It is also similar to the “literary heart” of the ancients. Chinese poetics with cultural mind is characterized by the concept of holistic poetics and the fusion of the ancient and the modern. The three main points of holistic poetics are viewing poetry as the foundation, taking into account the three talents, and “copper mining in the mountain”. The three paths to the fusion of the ancient and the modern consist in the cultivation of both learning and practical skills, the joint advancement in poetry and thought and to a poetical life. There are three major backgrounds for the origin of Chinese poetics with cultural mind: the internal dissatisfaction of the academic, the changes in the external conditions of the academic, and the new needs of the times for humanistic academic. Therefore, Chinese poetics with cultural mind is not only poetics itself, but also an academic response to the combination of tradition and modernity.

Key words: cultural mind, Chinese poetics, the fusion of the ancient and the modern, holistic poetics