{"id":2465,"date":"2014-03-17T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2014-02-26T14:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T06:30:23","slug":"nick-kaldiss-the-chinese-prose-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2465","title":{"rendered":"Nick Kaldis’s The Chinese Prose Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Front<\/a>Nicholas Kaldis’s The Chinese Prose Poem<\/a>: A Study of Lu Xun’s<\/em> Wild Grass (<\/em>Yecao)<\/em> is now out from Cambria Press.<\/p>\n

Yecao<\/i> \u91ce\u8349<\/em> (Wild Grass<\/i>, a.k.a. Weeds<\/i>), is a 1927 collection of twenty-three prose poems written by Lu Xun \u9b6f\u8fc5<\/em> (1881\u20131936), who is China\u2019s foremost writer of the twentieth-century. The poems, written between 1924 and 1926, were first published serially in the journal Threads of Talk<\/i> from 1924 to 1927. This prose poem collection \u2014a literary masterpiece in the eyes of many\u2014 features some of Lu Xun\u2019s most complex and psychologically dense creative works; Lu Xun himself is purported to have said his \u201centire philosophy is contained in his Yecao<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the significance attributed to this collection within Lu Xun\u2019s literary corpus, until now there has not been a single comprehensive English-language study of Yecao<\/i>. Part of the reason for this considerable gap in the scholarship can be attributed to the fact that fiction has been given primacy in most literary studies of Lu Xun, and prose poetry (sanwen shi \u6563\u6587\u8a69<\/i>) as a genre has generally not been well represented \u2014if at all\u2014 in surveys, anthologies, and other collections of twentieth-century Chinese literature.<\/p>\n

This study remedies the absence of a comprehensive English-language study of Lu Xun\u2019s Yecao<\/i> and is the perfect companion to the reading and study of Yecao<\/i>. It is not only a useful reference work and bibliographical source but also an informative contribution to and dialogue with the extant scholarship. Most importantly, this study engages with the Yecao<\/em> prose poems in a rigorous scholarly fashion while simultaneously allowing each prose poem to influence its reader and determine directions and conclusions made during the interaction of interpretation. This book deftly addresses in detail key aspects of context and content integral to interpreting Yecao<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For further information, click the image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nicholas Kaldis’s The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao) is now out from Cambria Press. Yecao \u91ce\u8349 (Wild Grass, a.k.a. 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