TY - BOOK AU - Song,Ye TI - Poetry and power of judgment: the aesthetic unity of Chinese classical poetry SN - 9781003488491 U1 - 895.11009 23/eng/20240317 PY - 2025/// KW - Chinese poetry KW - History and criticism KW - Literature KW - Aesthetics KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry N2 - "This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying classical Chinese poems and the basis for valid aesthetic judgments about poetry. The pleasure derived from art plays a crucial role in people's evaluation of its worth. This book shows that Chinese classical poetics and Western aesthetics agree on the sources of aesthetic pleasure. Both hold, despite their obvious differences, that aesthetic taste essentially involves cognition. The book explores important ideas in traditional Chinese poetry, emphasizing that "judgment (shi) is the foundation of poetry". This central idea guides other key concepts throughout the history of Chinese poetics, revealing the fundamental principles of creating and appreciating poetic art. The author presents new views of traditional Chinese poetry and poetics by unifying these long-dispersed basic propositions into a new coherent cognitivist framework that also gives due importance to emotion. Scholars and students studying Chinese literature, poetics, philosophy, philosophy of art, and philosophy of mind will find this book of interest"-- UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003488491 ER -