Affect, Chou, and Nalan’s Ci
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.498How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Nalan Xingde, Affect, Emotion, Chou, Seventeenth-century Chinese Literature
- Abstract
Nalan Xingde is an important figure in the Chinese literary history. Claimed as one of the three most renowned writers of the Ci (song lyric) genre in the 17th century China, Nalan established his name with Drinking Water Poem. His Ci has a peculiar quality featuring a profusion of emotions and feelings, expressive of the structures of feelings of his time. Recent decades have saw an “affect turn” in humanities and social sciences, and studies of emotion and its history have provided a new framework to approach Nalan’s Ci and himself as an extraordinary historical figure. Taking Chou, the most prominent feelings as the focus, this paper first charts Nalan’s traumatic private and public life to show the mechanism causing his Chou. It argues that repressed, negative feelings of Chou shaped Nalan’s individualistic way of expressing emotions and his visions for unique literary creation. And in return, his investment in poetic creation of affective world helps him to resist and eventually live with negative feelings.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Shiyu Wang PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/17 TI - Affect, Chou, and Nalan’s Ci BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 566 EP - 569 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201215.498 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201215.498 ID - Wang2020 ER -