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Between history and philosophy : anecdotes in early China /
Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes--brief, freestanding accounts of single events inv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Anecdotes in Early China; Characteristic Features of Anecdotes; Anecdotes in Early Chinese Texts; Time, Place, and Protagonists; Length; Historicity and Factuality; Variations and Valences; Framing Techniques; Genre; Anecdotes and Historical Genres; Anecdotes and Philosophical Genres; Anecdotes in this Volume; Part I: Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate; Part II: Anecdotes and Textual Formation; Part III: Anecdotes and History; Notes; Part I: Anecdotes, Argumentation, and Debate; 1. Non-deductive Argumentation in Early Chinese Philosophy; Paradox; Analogy.
- Appeal to ExampleDeductive Reasoning; Notes; 2. The Frontier between Chen and Cai; Beyond Exempla: The Sojourn Narrative as Philosophical Reasoning; Inversions between Chen and Cai; Implications: Comparing the Philosophical Uses of Narrative in Early China and Ancient Greece; Conclusion; Notes; 3. Mozi as a Daoist Sage?; Inherent Tensions in the "Gongshu" Anecdote; The Body of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; The Ending of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; Tensions Introduced by the "Gongshu" Ending; Identifying the Discourse Circles of the "Gongshu" Anecdote; Discourse Circle A; Discourse Circle B; Conclusion.
- Notes4. Anecdotal Barbarians in Early China; Cultural Refinement and Substance: How Much Culture Is Too Much Culture?; Tradition and Transformation; Rhetorical Contexts of Sino-Barbarian Boundaries; Conclusion; Notes; Part II: Anecdotes and Textual Formation; 5. Anecdote Collections as Argumentative Texts; The Textual Fabric of the Shuoyuan and the Question of Liu Xiang's Authorship; Liu Xiang's Memorial on the Occasion of Submitting the Shuoyuan to the Throne; Explanation and/or Persuasion? The Shuoyuan as a Discursive Text.
- The Composition of Chapter 9, "Zhengjian" (Rectifying Remonstrance) in the ShuoyuanConclusion; Notes; 6. From Villains Outwitted to Pedants Out-Wrangled; Cluster A and Cluster C: Villains vs. Pedants; Tracing Transition in Cluster B; Conclusion; Notes; 7. The Limits of Praise and Blame; A Typology of Gongyang Narratives; Worthy Protectors; The Righteous Kongfu Jia of Song; The Fearless Qiu Mu of Song; The Trustworthy Xun Xi of Jin; Worthy Avengers; Ji You of Lu; Worthy Regents; Duke Yin's Regency; Worthy Abdicators; Ji Zha of Wu; Devotees of Ritual Propriety and Trustworthiness.
- Conclusion: Anecdote as Historiographical MuseNotes; Part III: Anecdotes and History; 8. History without Anecdotes; The Riddle of Boredom: Non-anecdotal Narratives in the Zuozhuan; The Xinian: Introduction; Non-moralizing History: The Xinian vs. Zuozhuan Narratives; The Xinian and Chu Historiography; Summary: Non-anecdotal Historiography; Notes; 9. Cultural Memory and Excavated Anecdotes in "Documentary" Narrative; The Baoxun and Its Modern Classification; The Baoxun; The Frame; Genre; The Primary Narrative; Anecdotes; Discussion and Conclusion; Notes; 10. Old Stories No Longer Told.