This chapter explores the significance of Guo Moruo's landmark poetic collection The Goddesses (1921) against the background of modern Chinese poetry. The first section focuses on Guo's biography, artistic career, and literary achievements. In the second part of the chapter The Goddesses is analyzed in its formal and thematic features, with a special focus on the combination of traditional and innovative forms, foreign and native stylemes, the devices of self-expression, and the theme of destruction and rebirth.

Imagining New Chinese in Guo Moruo’s Poetry

MAGAGNIN, Paolo
2018-01-01

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This chapter explores the significance of Guo Moruo's landmark poetic collection The Goddesses (1921) against the background of modern Chinese poetry. The first section focuses on Guo's biography, artistic career, and literary achievements. In the second part of the chapter The Goddesses is analyzed in its formal and thematic features, with a special focus on the combination of traditional and innovative forms, foreign and native stylemes, the devices of self-expression, and the theme of destruction and rebirth.
2018
The Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature
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