Fusion of critical horizons in Chinese and Western language, poetics, aesthetics / Ming Dong Gu.
Gu, Mingdong, 1955- author.
2021
PL2274 .G82 2021
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Title Fusion of critical horizons in Chinese and Western language, poetics, aesthetics / Ming Dong Gu.
Author Gu, Mingdong, 1955- author.
ISBN 3030737306 (electronic book)
9783030737306 (electronic bk.)
3030737292
9783030737290
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73730-6
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-73730-6 doi
Call Number PL2274 .G82 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 809
801.93
Summary This book begins with a reflection on dichotomies in comparative studies of Chinese and Western literature and aesthetics. Critiquing an oppositional paradigm, Ming Dong Gu argues that despite linguistic and cultural differences, the two traditions share much common ground in critical theory, aesthetic thought, metaphysical conception, and reasoning. Focusing on issues of language, writing, and linguistics; metaphor, metonymy, and poetics; mimesis and representation; and lyricism, expressionism, creativity, and aesthetics, Gu demonstrates that though ways of conception and modes of expression may differ, the two traditions have cultivated similar aesthetic feelings and critical ideas capable of fusing critical and aesthetic horizons. With a two-way dialogue, this book covers a broad spectrum of critical discourses and uncovers fascinating connections among a wide range of thinkers, theorists, scholars, and aestheticians, thereby making a significant contribution to bridging the aesthetic divide and envisioning world theory and global aesthetics. Ming Dong Gu is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Studies at Shenzhen University, China, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. His recent books include Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters (2018) and Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism (2013).
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 28, 2021).
Series Chinese literature and culture in the world.
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Ch. 1: Aesthetic Divide and Vision of Global Aesthetics
Part I: Language and Writing
Ch. 2: Writing System and Linguistic Controversy
Ch. 3: Re-conceptualizing the Linguistic Divide
Part II: Metaphor and Poetics
Ch. 4: Chinese and Western Conceptions of Metaphor
Ch. 5: Metaphor as Signs: Bi-Xing and Metaphor/Metonymy
Part III: Mimesis and Representation
Ch. 6: Is Mimetic Theory Universal?
Ch. 7: Western Mimesis and Chinese Mimetic Theory
Part IV: Metaphysics and Aesthetics
Ch. 8: Divine Thinking and Artistic Creation
Ch. 9: Lyricism and Mimeticism in Aesthetic Thought
Ch. 10: Toward World Criticism and Global Aesthetics.

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