Configurations of comparative poetics : three perspectives on Western and Chinese literary criticism /

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 natu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cai, Zong-qi, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Poetics.
Comparative literature > Chinese and Western.
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese.
Poétique.
Littérature comparée > Chinoise et occidentale.
Littérature comparée > Occidentale et chinoise.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Literature, Comparative > Chinese and Western.
Literature, Comparative > Western and Chinese.
Comparative literature > Chinese and Western
Comparative literature > Western and Chinese
Poetics
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Major Chinese Dynasties
  • Macrocosmic Structures of Western and Chinese Poetics
  • The Orientation of Western Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as Truth, Untruth, or Antitruth
  • The Orientation of Chinese Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as a Harmonizing Process
  • Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts of Literature
  • The Systematics of Western and Chinese Poetics: Common Denominators, Differentiae, and Cosmological Paradigms
  • Microcosmic Textures of Western and Chinese Poetics
  • Poetics of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry
  • Poetics of Imagination: Wordsworth and Liu Xie on Literary Creation
  • Poetics of Dynamic Force: Fenollosa, Pound, and Chinese Critics on the Chinese Written Character
  • Poetics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Madhyamika Buddhists on Language and Ontotheologies
  • Epilogue: Reflections: Intracultural, Cross-cultural, and Transcultural Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism.

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