接受美学视角下隐喻模糊美研究——以中国古典诗词红色意象为例-a study on the vague beauty of metaphor from the perspective of reception aesthetics - a case study of red images in chinese classical poetry.docxVIP

As we all know, the Chinese classical poetry is a bright pearl in traditional Chinese culture. The beauty of color images in Chinese classical poetry has always been the research focus for many scholars since ancient time. Intertwined with the poet’s subjective feeling, with profound and rich connotations, color imagery is the central category of classical Chinese aesthetics. Color images and metaphors share lots of similarities from cognitive perspective. In this sense, color image is a conceptual metaphor to a certain extent.As an indispensable rhetorical device in poetry, metaphor is frequently used not only to stimulate the reader to think and imagine, but also to provoke a wide range of emotions. In stylistic, metaphor is also an important approach to achieve “defamiliarization” and “imagery”. The poetic function of metaphor plays a very important role in the interpretation of poems. With the participation of metaphorical red image in the presentation of poetic artistic conception, poetry is endowed with special spirit and beauty as well. Red images are selected as corpus in this thesis.In the 1960s, Reception Aesthetics, a reader-centered theory, was proposed by Constance School with Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser as main representatives. This theory has a close relationship with hermeneutics and can be seen as a literary criticism. With its totally new perspective, reception aesthetics theory has exerted a great influence on the whole literature field and literary translation field as well. The author attempts to find a new way to enjoy the red images in Chinese classical poetry from the aesthetic perspective.As typical emotional symbols, red images is a common color phenomenon in Chinese classical poetry. According to Reception Aesthetics, the meaning of red images is purposefully uncertain, and blanks or gaps will be generated in the text, the reader, as the recipient of the source text, plays an active and creative role in filling the blanks and the r