Abstract:

American Scholar Named Chen ShiXiang(Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China) Abstract： An approach to the study of the Chinese and Western poetics by Chen Shixiang, an American scholar, can be made from two levels of macro and micro. In the macro level, by comparison of the Chinese and Western traditions in literature, especially the tradition in poetry, Chen Shixiang concludes that the Chinese literature has a lyric tradition, which is different from the narrative tradition of the Western literature. And in the micro level, he makes a comparative analysis of the words of the Chinese and Western poetics, which is helpful in understanding the similarities and differences between the expressive concepts of the Chinese and Western poetics. Actually, in Chen' s study of the Chinese and Western poetics, macro and micro are not absolutely segmental. Instead, they tend to blend organically. By analysis of Chen's works, the author enables readers to understand fully the lyric tradition of the Chinese poetic as well as the similarity and difference between the expressive concepts of the Chinese and Western poetics, thus contributing to a better understanding and grasping of the connotations and characteristics of the traditional Chinese poetry.