TTLA: Typical artistic symbols in Vietnamese poetry during the period 1930 - 1945

1. Full name of doctoral candidate: Pham Duc Cuong 2. Gender: Male.

3. Date of birth: October 19, 1982 4. Place of birth: Hai Phong.

5. Decision to recognize the doctoral student No. 2798/2012/QD-XHNV-SDH, dated December 28, 2012, by the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

6. Changes in the training process: None.

7. Thesis title:Typical artistic symbols in Vietnamese poetry during the period 1930-1945.

8. Major: Literary Theory 9. Code: 62 22 01 20.

10. Scientific supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Khanh Thanh.

11. Summary of the new findings of the Thesis:

- The thesis conducted research and presented the basic theoretical frameworks on the issue of symbolism and artistic symbolism.

- Based on research and analysis, the dissertation presents observations and perspectives on the origins of symbols in Vietnamese poetry during the 1930-1945 period. It focuses on analyzing the social origins and the differences in psychological origins and aesthetic concepts in the formation of symbolic systems in romantic poetry (New Poetry) and revolutionary poetry.

- This dissertation is the first scientific work to systematically and comprehensively examine the typical artistic symbols in the New Poetry movement of 1932-1945, and the typical artistic symbols in revolutionary poetry of 1930-1945 (through representative authors and works).

- The research results of this dissertation have clarified the value of typical artistic symbols in Vietnamese poetry during the 1930-1945 period; contributed to a comprehensive and in-depth assessment of the artistic thinking and poetic characteristics of various poetic trends; and affirmed the ideological, aesthetic, and unique creative talent of the representative poets of this period.

12. Practical applications: This work can serve as a research, teaching, and learning resource for lecturers and students in universities, as well as for teachers and students in high schools, regarding Vietnamese romantic and revolutionary poetry from the 1930-1945 period. It can also be a useful reference for researchers, theorists, and critics of modern literature when studying, evaluating, and analyzing Vietnamese poetry from the 1930-1945 period.

13. Further research directions: Continue researching the issue of artistic symbolism in modern Vietnamese poetry.

14. Published works related to the dissertation:

- Pham Duc Cuong (2019), "The Symbolism of Light and Darkness in the Poetry Collection"Since thenby To Huu",Science Journal(34), pp. 6-13.

- Pham Duc Cuong (2019), "Butterfly - a typical artistic symbol in Nguyen Binh's love poetry",Journal of Education and Society(Special Issue No. 2, November), pp. 27-33.

- Pham Duc Cuong (2020), “Typical artistic symbols of revolutionary ideals in Vietnamese revolutionary poetry during the period 1930-1945”,Journal of Education and Society(Special Issue, April 2020), pp. 33-39.

INFORMATION ON DOCTORAL THESIS

1. Full name: Pham Duc Cuong 2. Sex: Male

3. Date of birth: October 19, 1982 4. Place of birth: Hai Phong

5. Admission decision number: 2798/2012/QD-XHNV-SDH dated December 28, 2012 by Rector of University of Social Studies and Humanities.

6. Changes in academic process: None.

7. Official thesis title:Typical artistic symbols in Vietnamese poetry in the 1930-1945 period.

8. Major: Literary theory 9. Code: 62 22 01 20.

10. Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Khanh Thanh.

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:

- The thesis has conducted research and presented the basic theoretical frameworks for symbolism and artistic symbols.

- On the basis of research and analysis, the thesis has expressed some remarks and viewpoints on the origins of the symbols in Vietnamese poetry in the period 1930-1945. In particular, it has focused on analyzing social origins and differences in psychological roots, the aesthetic conceptions in the process of the birth of symbolic systems in romantic poetry (New poetry) and Revolutionary poetry.

- The thesis is the first research work which proposed and investigated the artistic symbols in New poetry in the 1932-1945 period as well as those in Revolutionary poetry in the 1930-1945 era (through representative authors and works) in a systematic and comprehensive way.

- The results of the thesis have clarified the values ​​of typical artistic symbols in Vietnamese poetry between 1930 and 1945, which helps to contribute to a comprehensive and profound assessment of artistic thinking and poetic characteristics of poetry trends; thus affirming the unique ideological, aesthetic and creative values ​​of the distinctive poets in this period.

12. Practical applicability, if any: This thesis could be a useful research, teaching and learning material for Romantic poetry and Revolutionary poetry in the period 1930-1945 at the tertiary and high school levels. Besides, it could be a practical scientific reference for researchers whose interests are modern literary theory and review for their studying, analyzing and evaluating Vietnamese poetry in this period of time.

13. Further research directions, if any: Continue to research the artistic symbols in modern Vietnamese poetry.

14. Thesis-related publications:

- Pham Duc Cuong (2019), “Symbols of light and darkness in “The first” poem of To Huu”,Science Journal(34), pp. 6-13.

- Pham Duc Cuong (2019), “Butterfly wings” - a typical artistic symbol in Nguyen Binh's love poetry,Education and Society Journal(Special publication No.2, November), pp. 27-33.

- Pham Duc Cuong (2020), “The typical artistic symbol of the revolutionary ideal in Vietnam revolution poetry in the period 1930-1945”,Education and Society Journal(Special April publication), pp. 33-39.