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Author Liu, James J. Y.

Title Language-Paradox-Poetics : a Chinese Perspective.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages).
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Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
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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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Subject Chinese language -- Versification.
Chinese language -- Versification.
Paradox.
Paradox.
Poetics.
Poetics.
Chinese poetry -- Philosophy.
Chinese poetry -- Philosophy.
Chinese poetry.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lynn, Richard John.
Other Form: Print version: Liu, James J.Y. Language-Paradox-Poetics : A Chinese Perspective. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400859689 (electronic book)
1400859689 (electronic book)