Configurations of comparative poetics: three perspectives on Western and Chinese literary criticism

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Major Chinese Dynasties......Page 12
Prologue......Page 14
Part I: Macrocosmic Structures of Western and Chinese Poetics......Page 20
1. The Orientation of Western Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as Truth, Untruth, or Antitruth......Page 22
2. The Orientation of Chinese Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as a Harmonizing Process......Page 46
3. Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts of Literature......Page 84
4. The Systematics of Western and Chinese Poetics: Common Denominators, Differentiae, and Cosmological Paradigms......Page 114
Part II: Microcosmic Textures of Western and Chinese Poetics......Page 124
5. Poetics of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry......Page 126
6. Poetics of Imagination: Wordsworth and Liu Xie on Literary Creation......Page 155
7. Poetics of Dynamic Force: Fenollosa, Pound, and Chinese Critics on the Chinese Written Character......Page 184
8. Poetics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Madhyamika Buddhists on Language and Ontotheologies......Page 216
Epilogue. Reflections: Intracultural, Cross-cultural, and Transcultural Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism......Page 252
Abbreviations......Page 270
Notes......Page 272
Works Cited......Page 330
Index......Page 360
About the Author......Page 374