A poet named Feng Ruofeng wrote an article derogating from the Chinese Department of Li Yawei, and by the way, he mentioned a few complaints about the poetry professor Kelly. His basic point of view is that it is harmful for Professor Kelly to recommend the Chinese Department as a model to students who have not been able to appreciate independently. Professor Wang refused to accept it and ran to Dafeng's private blog to leave a few words of "warning", which has two general meanings: don't talk nonsense if you don't understand the history of poetry; Young people should not be infected with the bad habit of writing poems, learn to be a man first, and then write poems. Professor Kelly's warning angered a group of poets who feared chaos in the world. If the wind blows, Chen Xiaodong and other young poets will rise up and attack them. The above is the basic situation of a poetry professor fighting with a group of poets with miscellaneous brands.
With Fujian Normal University as the link, Professor Kelly has formed a teacher-student relationship in a broad sense, while others are direct mentoring relationships. In 2006, when spoofing has become the most popular narrative paradigm of online media, this is a trivial matter that can be ignored. But after reading the relevant materials in a linked way, I became interested in this poetry professor. This interest stems from the fact that the poetry professor's bluff is in sharp contrast to the weak critical text he provided. To put it simply, a poetry critic who has made no achievements in the field of poetry criticism hangs the head of a poetry professor and acts as an opinion leader in the poetry circle, which is a vicious combination of the production system of China University and the literary and artistic evaluation system of China.
As a professor at the College of Literature of Fujian Normal University, Mr. Kelly claimed in his personal profile that he was "mainly engaged in the research of modern poetry and literature". It is said that Professor Kelly is a master of making papers, and his academic papers have been reprinted by authoritative publications such as Xinhua Digest, and are talked about by many proud students. I retrieved Professor Kelly's latest literary theory "Why Famous Poets Are Spoiled" from the Internet, and the results were staggering. What a professor reveals between the lines is not the basic independent academic character, but the show and fiddling around, making public his identity and his relationship with someone in the poetry world. The criticism of bureaucracy makes people wonder whether he is a scholar engaged in scientific research or an official engaged in ideological and political education. See how Kelly ended this literary theory:
I hope that the spoof of famous poets can bring reflection to the poetry world. Poets will pay attention to the public image, poetry critics will have some "professional self-discipline", and poetry critics will pay attention to "professional ethics" ... It can be summarized in one sentence: new poetry should pay attention to China's national conditions, and practitioners of new poetry should respect, love and strengthen themselves.
Through Professor Kelly's works, I was surprised to find that literary criticism has moved away from its mission and moved closer to "political rhetoric".
The "Double Life" of "Poetic Hermit"
Professor Kelly likes to describe himself as a hermit in his poems. This grandiose title appeared many times in Kelly's self-expression: "In recent years, I forced myself to' enter the role', stay away from the poetry circle, hide in the academic circle, concentrate on practicing, bury myself in learning, advocate' hiding in a small building to become a unity, regardless of winter Xia Chunqiu', and no longer ask about the poetry circle. Ten years later, I have won the title of' hermit in the poetry circle', and of course I will not pay attention to the gossip in the poetry circle. " In today's poetry world, the title of "Poetic Hermit" seems to give Professor Kelly a sense of superiority in moral narrative. A bunch of miscellaneous poets, mainly his students, are spreading the news of such a "Poetic Hermit" everywhere. Paradoxically, however, this "hermit in poetry" sometimes tells the truth of the power of "no right to speak without going to college" The college has become a secluded place for "hermits in poetry" and a shortcut for "poetry professors" to go south. This is the "two-faced life" of the hermit in the poem.
Crappy theory and bad practice
Professor Kelly has published two monographs on poetry theory, Introduction to Poetic Stylistics-Principles and Creation of Poetry, and Research on the Construction of Poetic Style of New Poetry in a Hundred Years. The two monographs add up to more than 800,000 words, and hundreds of papers have been published. The late China folklorist Zhong Jingwen wrote only a dozen papers in his life. By contrast, Kelly is a big paper maker. However, this paper, which is full of jargon, nonsense and spiritual separation, can neither solve the major problems of contemporary China's new poetry nor make a beneficial contribution to the academic progress of China's liberal arts. It has only two dimensions of value: one is to grab personal academic capital for Professor Kelly, and the other is to enrich the weight of "national scholarship". The so-called "national studies" follow the academic standards with China characteristics. It rejects the universal principle of "scholarship has no borders" and abandons the universal value that "the essence of scholarship lies in its contribution to the growth of human knowledge".
What is terrible is that poor theory and poor practice constitute a chain of mutual cause and effect. Poor theory is guiding poor practice, and poor practice is also supporting poor theory. At a party, I was told that there was a poetry professor at Normal University. At that time, I didn't know it was Kelly, but I showed disdain and disdain for the identity of "poetry professor" This emotion comes from my deep doubt about the validity of the identity combination of "poetry" and "professor". In Xiamen Daily, I read a poem by Kelly:
How I want to wave around Gulangyu Island.
Taste the waves on Gulangyu Island.
Embrace the morning sun at the top of the sunshine rock.
Enjoy it in the sound of piano and birds singing.
The clothes of dreams and the fragrance of poems
Finally arrived in Gulangyu, and the waves came and went.
Stroll into the deep alley of history
Changes of reading time
The waves are sad.
Wave is hope.
In the paradise of leisure
Wanderers no longer miss their hometown.
Life is no longer a picture.
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If it is purely literary text criticism, such a poem should not have entered the critic's critical field of vision. Because a poem that doesn't even cross the basic horizontal line is of no reading value, there is no need to analyze and criticize it. Kelly's poem is the level of a beginner who writes poetry; If you don't read it as a poem, the expressive ability embodied in these lines is also the level of a middle school student. Poetry does not achieve its goal, but there is an absolute standard, that is, it cannot be copied. This poem by Kelly is a typical "eight-part essay" poem about separation of mind, and it is a sentence, not a poem. It is not surprising that the professor can't write poetry. But Kelly is a professor of poetry. He can't write poetry, so he can read poetry, right?
Western modern literature has formed an important tradition, that is, literature is divorced from secular culture, thus gaining independent idealism. The biggest tradition of China literature is the fusion of literature and culture under the integration of bureaucratic ideology. Today, China literature is still attached to secular culture. The formation of this tradition depends largely on the integration of ancient imperial examinations and modern education. Bringing literature as a discipline into the knowledge production and dissemination system of the college not only hinders the pace of modern literature in China, but also increases the environmental pollution burden of academic ecology in China. In fact, at present, most of the two subjects under the first-level discipline of Chinese language and literature in colleges and universities are no longer necessary. It is urgent to compress this discipline group as a whole and replace it with related disciplines of culturology.