Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary CriticismUniversity of Hawaii Press, 2002 - 360 Seiten 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. |
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... concern with sociopolitical and nat- ural processes that immediately affect the conditions of human exis- tence . These humanistic concerns form a striking contrast to the over- riding concern with the numinous spirits in earlier times ...
... concerns with various external and internal processes . Let us first consider his treatment of external processes.68 On the stratum of the ultimate cosmological process , we observe his trans- formation of the early religious obsession ...
... concerns him- self with the question of how the Poetry can be used to guide various aspects of one's inner and outer life . In defining the functions of the Poetry , he focuses exclusively on the positive effects it can produce on an ...
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The Orientation of Western Poetics | 9 |
The Orientation of Chinese Poetics | 33 |
Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts | 71 |
Urheberrecht | |
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