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The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West by Longxi Zhang
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- Condition
- Publication Date
- 1992-04-17
- Pages
- 258
- ISBN
- 9780822312185
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822312182
ISBN-13
9780822312185
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1112734
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tao and the Logos : Literary Hermeneutics, East and West
Number of Pages
259 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, Asian / General, Language, General, Hermeneutics
Publication Year
1992
Genre
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Book Series
Post-Contemporary Interventions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
8.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
91-037126
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"Zhang Longxi's recent comparative study of Chinese and Western hermeneutics signals a key development in both contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. . . . Zhang makes a case. . .for hermeneutic understanding (and interpretive pluralism) through demonstrating how many themes and concerns of Chinese poetics parallel and predate recent developments in Western literary theory." --Christopher Wise, Philosophy & Literature "In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."--Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University "A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."--Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University, "In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."-Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University, "Zhang Longxi's recent comparative study of Chinese and Western hermeneutics signals a key development in both contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. . . . Zhang makes a case. . .for hermeneutic understanding (and interpretive pluralism) through demonstrating how many themes and concerns of Chinese poetics parallel and predate recent developments in Western literary theory." --Christopher Wise, Philosophy & Literature "In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."-Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University "A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."-Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University, "In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."--Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University, "A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."-Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University, "A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."--Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University "In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."--Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University, "A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."--Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
809
Table Of Content
Contents Preface A Note on Translation and Transliteration Chapter 1. The Debasement of Writing Chapter 2. Philosopher, Mystic, Poet Chapter 3. The Use of Silence Chapter 4. Author, Text, Reader Epilogue: Toward Interpretive Pluralism Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., 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 Mallarm 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., 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., 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
LC Classification Number
PN871
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