On Poems (System and Environment)

IF 0.8 2区文学 0 LITERATURE

New Literary History Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2023.a907165

Jack W. Chen

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Abstract

Abstract: In this essay, I propose a different approach to how we might conceptualize poetry, one that understands the poem not simply in terms of human-centered agency (that is, the complex of author-persona-reader) but as an emergent informatic-system. I focus on how the material and immaterial media of language, prosodic rules, and generic constraints all possess their own kinds of agency, comprising a set of limitations for what words the poet may select in composing the poem. Taking a poem by the Tang dynasty poet Wang Wei, I build upon a number of theoretical framings to argue that these strictures function as the constitute the field of what is possible in terms of poetic composition, that the compositional loop between an individual poet and poem is a cybernetic system and the set of constraints that delimit what is compositionally possible is the cybernetic environment.

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论诗歌(制度与环境)

摘要:在这篇文章中，我提出了一种不同的方法来解释我们如何概念化诗歌，这种方法不是简单地从以人为中心的代理(即作者-人物-读者的综合体)的角度来理解诗歌，而是将其视为一种新兴的信息系统。我关注的是语言的物质和非物质媒介、韵律规则和一般约束，它们都有自己的代理，构成了诗人在创作诗歌时选择的词汇的一系列限制。以唐朝诗人王维的一首诗为例，我在一系列理论框架的基础上提出，这些限制构成了诗歌创作可能的领域，诗人和诗歌之间的创作循环是一个控制论系统，而限定创作可能的约束是控制论环境。

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New Literary History LITERATURE-

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1.50

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11.10%

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.