A Chinese literary mind
Subtitle: culture, creativity and rhetoric in Wenxin Diaolong
By: edited by Zong-qi Cai.
Contributors: Cai, Zong-qi, 1955-
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Liu, Xie, -- ca. 465-ca. 522; Chinese literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Liu Xie's idea of canonicity / Kang-i Sun Chang; title: The making of a critical system: concepts of literature in Wenxin diaolong and earlier texts / Zong-qi Cai; title: Buddhism in The literary mind and ornate rhetoric / Victor H. Mair; title: Wang Bi and Liu Xie's Wenxin diaolong: terms and concepts, influence and affiliations / Richard John Lynn; title: Poet, mind, and world: a reconsideration of the "Shensi" chapter of Wenxin diaolong / Ronald Egan; title: Liu Xie on imagination / Shuen-fu Lin; title: The bones of parallel rhetoric in Wenxin diaolong / Andrew H. Plaks; title: Liu Xie and the discourse machine / Stephen Owen; title: Between "literary mind" and "carving dragons": order and excess in Wenxin diaolong / Wai-yee Li; title: A survey of studies on Wenxin diaolong in China and other parts of east Asia / Zhang Shaokang.