Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism 9780824861964

This comprehensive comparative study of Western and Chinese poetics begins with broad examinations of the two traditions

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Major Chinese Dynasties
Prologue
PART ONE: Macrocosmic Structures of Western and Chinese Poetics
1. The Orientation of Western Poetics
2. The Orientation of Chinese Poetics
3. Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts of Literature
4. The Systematics of Western and Chinese Poetics
PART TWO: Microcosmic Textures of Western and Chinese Poetics
5. Poetics of Harmony
6. Poetics of Imagination
7. Poetics of Dynamic Force
8. Poetics of Deconstruction
Epilogue: Reflections
Abbreviations
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Configurations of Comparative Poetics: Three Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism
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