TY  - BOOK
AU  - Liu,James J.Y.
AU  - Lynn,Richard John
TI  - Language-Paradox-Poetics: a Chinese Perspective
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400859689
AV  - PL1279 
U1  - 495.1/16 19
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Chinese language
KW  - Versification
KW  - Paradox
KW  - Poetics
KW  - Chinese poetry
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Literature
KW  - Chinois (Langue)
KW  - Paradoxe
KW  - Poétique
KW  - Poésie chinoise
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY
KW  - Chinese
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Southeast Asian Languages
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - 7
N1  - Cover; Contents; Frontmatter --; Contents --; Editor's Foreword --; Introduction --; 1. The Paradox Of Language --; 2. The Metaparadox of Poetics --; 3. The Poetics of Paradox --; 4. The Paradox of Interpretation --; Afterword: Impersonal Personality --; Chinese Words and Names --; Abbreviations --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index
N2  - In attempting to define a ""poetics of paradox"" from a traditional Chinese standpoint, James Liu explores through a comparative approach linguistic, textual, and interpretive problems of relevance to Western literary criticism. Liu's study evolves from a paradoxical view--originating from early Confucian and Daoist philosophical texts--that the less is ""said"" in poetry, the more is ""meant."" Such a view implied the existence of paradox in the very use of language and led traditional Chinese hermeneutics to a study of ""metaparadox""--The use of language to explicate texts the meaning of
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