Recently, Tang Xiaoxiang, young teacher with the College of Liberal Arts and Journalism of IMU, published the latest research result in the top journal for the discipline of Chinese language and literature-Literary Review. It is the second time that Tang has published the high-level article in the journal as the sole author in recent 3 years, which plays a positive role in accelerating the development of Chinese language and literature as a first-class discipline and continuously improving the academic reputation and influence of the discipline.
Literary Review is a national important academic journal for literary research and criticism. It is listed as one of Chinese core journals and one of the source journals of CSSCI and top journal of AMI.
The article systematically sorts out the prose and essays of the contemporary poets since 1990s and maintains that the shift of the poets to prose and essays has caused the facts that the prose and essays written by the poets are more renowned than their poems or that prose and essays are as renowned as poems, which is unique in the literary history of China in the 20th century. Since the 1990s the tradition that poets write prose and essays have been carried forward. Such Chinese contemporary poets as Shu Ting, Wang Xiaoni, Yu Jian, Wang Jiaxin, Xichuan, Zhong Ming, Pang Pei, Chen Dongdong, Jiang Lan and Duoyu have been working hard in prose and essay writing and led to another peak of prose creation by poets since Zhu Ziqing, He Qifang, Feng Zhi, Liu Shahe and Shao Yanxiang. In the research of contemporary prose and new verse, the researchers have not studied the prose writing by poets as a whole. To sort out the prose writing by poets since 1990s, analyze its nature, characteristics and literary origin, perspective of writing, poetic value and development trend is conducive to explore, in verse writing, the sense and sensibility, means and purpose, the difference between materials and ideal and provide a new perspective and path for correcting and extending the understanding and research of contemporary verses and poets.
Tang Xiaoxiang, a doctor of arts who graduated from Renmin University of China, is now a lecturer with the College of Liberal Arts and Journalism who focuses on the studies of the contemporary history of Chinese literature and criticism of contemporary literature of China and has published article in such important academic journals as Literary Review, Literary and Artistic Contention, Contemporary Literary Criticism and Research of Chinese Literature.
