The Tao and the Logos : literary hermeneutics, East and West / / Zhang Longxi

• Autore: Zhang Longxi
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 809
• Soggetto topico: Comparative literature; Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Comparative literature - Chinese and European; Language and languages - Philosophy; Hermeneutics; Criticism, Textual
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The Debasement of Writing -- ; 2. Philosopher, Mystic, Poet -- ; 3. The Use of Silence -- ; 4. Author, Text, Reader -- Epilogue: Toward Interpretive Pluralism.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Tao and the Logos
• ISBN: 0-8223-7977-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248153303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Post-contemporary interventions.