Thơ đô thị miền Nam 1965-1975 trong diễn ngôn phê bình văn học cùng thời

Abstract

  This article examines Southern urban poetry from 1965 to 1975 within the discourse of contemporary literary criticism, aiming to clarify the co-creative role of critics in the reception and valorization of this poetic movement. Grounded in three main theoretical pillars - reception theory, critical discourse analysis, and existentialism - the study analyzes representative critical texts by authors such as Bùi Giáng, Uyên Thao, Tạ Tỵ, Nguyễn Đình Tuyến, and Trần Nhựt Tân. It highlights how these critics approached poetry as a dynamic cultural phenomenon imbued with existential sensibility and ontological reflection. The findings reveal that Southern literary criticism before 1975 not only evaluated aesthetic value but also shaped reception and engaged in creative dialogue with poetry. As such, the study affirms the status of Southern urban poetry (1965-1975) as a distinctive artistic phenomenon within modern Vietnamese literature.