About this title: The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic calls for and applies a new model of comparative literature - one that, instead of taking for granted the commensurability of traditions and texts, gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. Exposing contemporary literary theory to the risks of ancient Chinese literature (and vice versa), this book considers a linked series of case studies. To what degree does the translation between languages and texts that we call comparative literature depend on allegory or translation within a single text or language? The author offers an important, new ...
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Binding: orig. cloth
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford
Date Published: (1995)
Description: Minor rubbing. A small mark to binding edge. VG. 22x14cm, xvi, 296 pp. Contents: The Question of Chinese Allegory; The Other Side of Allegory; The Prefaces as Introduction to the 'Book of Odes'; The 'Odes' as Exemplary Readings; Hegel's Chinese Imagination; Conclusion: Comparative Comparative Literature. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Stanford
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780804725934ISBN:0804725934
Description: pp. 296. Book condition is AS NEW; book is tight and crisp; wraps and manuscript pages are bright; spine is smooth; no markings in text. English. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
Date Published: 1993
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hardcover. 296 pages. Clean, tight copy with only minor foxing to top edge and very light shelf-wear to dust jacket. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 1995-09
ISBN-13:9780804725934ISBN:0804725934
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Description: Good. 0804720746 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Date Published: 30/09/1993
ISBN-13:9780804720748ISBN:0804720746
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN-13:9780804720748ISBN:0804720746
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