Style, March 22nd, 2006
1. Introduction
American Orientalist Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) argues in The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry (as edited by Ezra Pound):
the Chinese written language has not only absorbed the poetic substance of nature and built with it a second work of metaphor, but has, through its very pictorial visibility, been able to retain its original creative poetry with far more vigor and vividness than any phonetic tongue. (24)
The present study tries to reevaluate this sharp insight of Fenollosa into the nature of Chinese logographs as a medium for poetry and to place it ...
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