"Ma Junwuʼs Reinvented Lyricism: Revolutionary Landscape, Romanticism, Science Fiction, and Darwinian Geology"
Résumé
In classical Chinese poetry, nature is a place of philosophical revelation. Modern authors perpetuate this tradition of landscape poetry while simultaneously introducing new elements to it. Some of these modern literary, scientif ic, or ideological modif ications are less concerned with aesthetics and much more with the didactic message of a poem. This chapter investigates selected poems by Ma Junwu (1881–1940), an author with a background in chemistry and metallurgy whose work is representative of the hybrid nature of modern Chinese culture: the poetry in classical form that he composed at dif ferent times in his life of fers an example of a blend between scientif ic, mythological representations and renewed lyricism