UID:
edocfu_9959712195702883
Format:
1 online resource (258 p.)
ISBN:
9780822379775
Series Statement:
Post-Contemporary Interventions
Content:
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: the Tao and the Logos. The author develops a powerful cross-cultural and interdisciplinary hermeneutic analysis that relates individual works of literature not only to their respective cultures, but to a combined worldview where East meets West.Zhang's book brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding. He provides commentary on the rich traditions of poetry and poetics in ancient China; equally illuminating are Zhang's astute analyses of Western poets such as Rilke, Shakespeare, and Mallarmé and his critical engagement with the work of Foucault, Derrida, and de Man, among others.Wide-ranging and learned, this definitive work in East-West comparative poetics and the hermeneutic tradition will be of interest to specialists in comparative literature, philosophy, literary theory, poetry and poetics, and Chinese literature and history.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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A Note on Translation and Transliteration --
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1 The Debasement of Writing --
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2 Philosopher, Mystic, Poet --
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3 The Use of Silence --
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4 Author, Text, Reader --
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Epilogue: Toward Interpretive Pluralism --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780822379775
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822379775
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