The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West

Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic langu...

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Beteilige Person: Zhang, Longxi 1947- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [1992]
Schriftenreihe:Post-Contemporary Interventions
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822379775
Zusammenfassung:Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: the Tao and the Logos. The author develops a powerful cross-cultural and interdisciplinary hermeneutic analysis that relates individual works of literature not only to their respective cultures, but to a combined worldview where East meets West.Zhang's book brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding. He provides commentary on the rich traditions of poetry and poetics in ancient China; equally illuminating are Zhang's astute analyses of Western poets such as Rilke, Shakespeare, and Mallarmé and his critical engagement with the work of Foucault, Derrida, and de Man, among others.Wide-ranging and learned, this definitive work in East-West comparative poetics and the hermeneutic tradition will be of interest to specialists in comparative literature, philosophy, literary theory, poetry and poetics, and Chinese literature and history
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Umfang:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9780822379775
DOI:10.1515/9780822379775