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Ascent and Descent: the ‘Inspiration’ of Qin Zhong Shu and Menippean Satire

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2012, (30), pp.381-399
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2012..30.016
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : October 31, 2012

黎活仁 1

1香港大學中文學院

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ABSTRACT

Gaston Bachelard pointed out in his ‘Air and Dreans: An Essay on the Imagination of Movemenmts’ that in the use of metaphor of ascemt and descent, the use of the later one is more prevalent than the earlier one. This essay is an attempt to summarize the research conducted by M.M. Bahkhtin in his book, the ‘Problem of Dostoevsky’s Poetics9’. In this book, Bakhtin said that the Menippean Satire is a research on the ‘Satire’, a short essay written by Qin Zhong Shu. The Menippen Satire is devoted to both Heaven and Hell, with special emphasis on the later. The ‘Inspiration’, on the other hand, mainly revolves around the hell, and is therefore, the literature of descent.

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