Title: A Study of Liao Yan's Literature Thoughts and His Personality Traits
Abstract: Liao Yan's literature thoughts are outstanding in cultural tyranny of the times in the Qing Dynasty,which has close relationship with his status of civilian intellectual and his unique character.Many of his friends were diehards of the Ming Dynasty.They worshiped the theory of Wang Yangming and were also influenced by the practical thought.Attacking despotism system and advocating the truth were the core of his literature thoughts.He argued that essays and article comments were very important to literary works.He established a new aesthetic principle that anger was a supreme style,and put forward a theory on artistic creation that an artist should have ready works in his mind before his wrote them.Both his literature theory and his works were anti-autocratic and anti-tradition.
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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