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Configurations of comparative poetics :

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0585466637

(Number (ISBN

0824861965

(Number (ISBN

9780585466637

(Number (ISBN

9780824861964

Erroneous ISBN

0824823389

Erroneous ISBN

9780824823382

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b774341

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Configurations of comparative poetics :

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[Book]

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three perspectives on Western and Chinese literary criticism /

First Statement of Responsibility

Zong-qi Cai.

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Honolulu :

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University of Hawaiʻi Press,

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©2002.

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1 online resource (xii, 360 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index.

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This comprehensive comparative study of Western and Chinese poetics begins with broad examinations of the two traditions over more than two and a half millennia. From these parallel surveys, a series of important theoretical questions arises: How do Western and Chinese critics conceptualize the nature, origin, and function of literature? What are the fundamental differences, if any, in their ways of thinking about literature? Can we account for these differences by examining Western truth-based and Chinese process-based cosmological paradigms? What are the major distinctive concepts of literature developed within Western and Chinese poetics? How have these concepts impacted the development of the two traditions at various times? After considering a wide range of major critical texts, Configurations of Comparative Poetics presents bold and cogent answers to these questions while shedding light on the distinctive orientations of Western and Chinese poetics. The second half of the book features four comparative case studies: Plato and Confucius on poetry; Wordsworth and Liu Xie on the creative process; the twentieth-century "Imagists" and their earlier Chinese counterparts on the relationship of the Chinese written character to poetics; and Derrida and the Madhyamika Buddhists on language and onto-theology. The author not only identifies an array of critical concerns shared by Western and Chinese critics, but also differentiates the conceptual models used by each and traces them to cosmological paradigms.

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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt62vdd8

Title

Configurations of comparative poetics.

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0824823389

Comparative literature-- Chinese and Western.

Comparative literature-- Western and Chinese.

Poetics.

Comparative literature-- Chinese and Western.

Comparative literature-- Western and Chinese.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Poetry.

Literature, Comparative-- Chinese and Western.

Literature, Comparative-- Western and Chinese.

Poetics.

Poetics.

TRAVEL-- Special Interest-- Literary.

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LIT014000

TRV-- 026090

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Cai, Zong-qi,1955-

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20201203063940.0

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[Book]

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