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Language-Paradox-Poetics : a Chinese Perspective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (192 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400859689
  • 1400859689
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language-Paradox-Poetics : A Chinese Perspective.DDC classification:
  • 495.1/16 19
LOC classification:
  • PL1279
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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
Summary: 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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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.

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

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