Synopses & Reviews
This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature. First published in 1979, it has been hailed as one of the most insightful and comprehensive treatments of themes and motifs in early Chinese writing to appear in this century. Scholar, novelist, and essayist Qian Zhongshu (b. 1910) is arguably contemporary China's foremost man of letters, and Limited Views is recognized as the culmination of his study of literature in both the Chinese and the Western traditions.
Synopsis
This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's < i="">
Synopsis
This translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature.
Synopsis
There are no reviews available at this time.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-462) and index.
About the Author
Ronald C. Egan is Professor of Sinology in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University.
Stanford University
Table of Contents
Introduction
General Issues in Aesthetics and Criticism
The Meaning Surpasses the Image
Worldly Frustration and Literary Composition
Personal Conduct and Literary Style
Poetic Landscapes and Fidelity to Nature
The Corruption of Consciousness
The Writer as Critic
Sadness as the Primary Value in Music
Saddened by a Height
Complex Emotions in Literature
The Origins of "Delighting the Mind" in Landscape
Script and Nature, Script and Painting
"Resonance" in Criticism on the Arts
The Misreading of Xie He's "Six Canons"
The Early History of the Concept
Resonance and Concealment
A Lost Twelfth-Century Treatise
From Music to the Literary and Visual Arts
Metaphor, Image, and the Psychology of Perception Metaphors Have Two Handles and Several Sides
"Human Life Is Like Ice"
Imagery in the
Changes and the
Songs Gifts with Symbolic Meanings
Reverse Symbolism
The Domesticating Metaphor
Inflated Language
Synaesthesia
Constant Qualities, Variant Perceptions
The Name but Not the Reality
Impossible Tropes
On Not Recognizing Mirrors
Using Sound to Emphasize Silence
The Motif of the Other Shore
Semantics and Literary Stylistics
The Hermeneutic Circle
Characters with Multiple Meanings Used Simultaneously
Dialectics in Words and Emotions
Chiasmus
Quoting Out of Context
Degrees of Grammaticalness
Poetic Conventions and the Problem of Distorted Meaning
"Difficulty" in Prose Style
Literary Style and the Detection of Forgeries
A Defense of Parallel Prose
Literary Writing and Utilitarian Prose
Event and Background in Early Historical Writings
On "Laozi," with Reference to Buddhism and Other Mystical Philosophies
The Way and Names
The Insights and Myopia of Mystical Philosophies
Heaven and Earth Are Inhuman, the Sage Is Inhuman
The Body as a Source of Trouble
Modeling Oneself on Nature
Fallacia Divisionis
On Not Speaking While Speaking
Right Words Look Like Contradictions
The Demonic and the Divine
Fate Versus Divine Justice
Ghosts and Gods
Inconsistencies in The Zuo Commentary
Nomenclature: "Ghost," "Daemon," and "Heaven"
God on High and the King of Zhou
Ghosts and Daemons Are Neither All-Seeing nor Just
Witchcraft
More Joy on Earth than in Heaven
Time in Heaven, Earth, and Hell
Rebuking Heaven
Ghosts That Die
"Born from a Brush" and "Killed by a Painting"
Poets in Hell
Society and Thought
Stupefying the People
Critiques of "Driving Out the Foreigners"
The Concepts "Chinese" and "Barbarian"
Giving Books to the Barbarians
The Sage Does Not Experience Emotion
Marriage and Fate
Rivalry Between Shamans and Doctors
Monks and Lice
Vegetarians with Impure Minds
Tears at Partings
Reference Matter
Works Cited
Finding List
Index of Proper Names, Titles, and Terms