Journal paper

Issue No.	lssue 74
Title	A Study on the Stylistics of Houshan Shihua by Chen Shidao
Author	WANG, CHI-LUN
Page	73～110
Abstract	During the Northern Song Dynasty, and prior to Chen Shidao’s Houshan Shihua as a preeminent criticism, the discussion on literary style was pervasive. He views that “poetry” and “prose” are the distinct genres in their own rights. Du Fu’s poems and Han Yu's prose have been highly artistic achievements, the writers, thusly, should preserve the traditional style, and should not mix up with the other styles of writing. The rest of sub-genres, such as: “bei” and “ji,” remains in the similar classification. Chen Shidao’s view on stylistics in his categorization shows a stylistic configuration out of the cross-genre writings. His theory is also reverberating to the literati of the Northern Song Dynasty. Poetry and prose are distinct in genres; for examples, the poetry by Du Fu must be followed, the Record on the Drunken Pavillion by Ouyang Xiu must be learned, but the Record on Yueyang Tower must be rejected by its extensive symmetry with show-offing techniques in the style of “chuanqi” novel. His criticism of style makes a long great impact on literary criticism.
Keyword	Chen Shidao, Houshan Shihua, literary genre, stylistic view, literary style, cross-literary writing, Record on Yueyang Tower, Record on the Drunken Pavilion, “chuanqi” novel
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