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Language-Paradox-Poetics: A Chinese Perspective
By (Author) James J.Y. Liu
Edited by Richard John Lynn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
495.116
Hardback
192
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
425g
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