Pentasyllabic poetry has been a focus of critical study since the
appearance of the earliest works of Chinese literary criticism in
the Six Dynasties period. Throughout the subsequent dynasties,
traditional Chinese critics continued to examine pentasyllabic
poetry as a leading poetic type and to compile various
comprehensive anthologies of it. The Matrix of Lyric Transformation
enriches this tradition, using modern analytical methods to explore
issues of self-expression and to trace the early formal, thematic,
and generic developments of this poetic form. Beginning with a
discussion of the Yueh-fu and ku-shih genres of the Han period, Cai
Zong-qi introdues the analytical framework of modes from Western
literary criticism to show how the pentasyllabic poetry changed
over time. He argues that changing practices of poetic composition
effected a shift from a dramatic mode typical of folk compositions
to a narrative mode and finally to lyric and symbolic modes
developed in literati circles.
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