張維의 辭賦文學 — 修身 頌祝 呪術 —

Abstract

Jang-Yu was an authority on Chinese literature and as well a distinguished Sa-Bu writer who ended the grand finale with the flourish in the literary history of Sa-Bu. However, his role as a Sa-Bu writer has been hardly mentioned until these days. This paper aims to evaluate his achievement as a Sa-Bu writer and to summarize criticisms on his literary works of Sa-Bu. However, this would become an overview of the topic because of lack of space. This paper deals with 10 pieces of his works, only related to the topic of spiritual training, blessing and incantation. The translation of his works are left out in order to save space. Instead, this paper focuses more on study of style of Sa-Bu and discusses the 3-level formation, the use of rhyme and the usage of letters and phrases in detail. Since the core criterion of genre classification is deeply related to formal elements, the research on these elements is very important process for understanding the concept of Sa-Bu. Thus, this study would help in defining the notion of Sa-Bu and also in understanding the content of the literary works of Jang-Yu.