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The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic

By Haun Saussy

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0804720746, 9780804720748
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (25893654 bytes)
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Edition
1
Pages
316\320
Library
ACLS / Fulcrum
Time added
2021-03-13 15:53:05

Description

The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic calls for and applies a new model of comparative literature - one that, instead of taking for granted the commensurability of traditions and texts, gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. Exposing contemporary literary theory to the risks of ancient Chinese literature (and vice versa), this book considers a linked series of case studies. To what degree does the translation between languages and texts that we call comparative literature depend on allegory or translation within a single text or language? The author offers an important, new perspective on the reading of the Shih-ching or Book of Odes and the question of allegory and metaphor in the Chinese poetic tradition.

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