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 perspective on the reading of the Shih-ching or Book of Odes and the question of allegory and metaphor in the Chinese poetic tradition.
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“This is a study of The Book of Odes, the Prefaces, and the enormous tradition of Odes scholarship. The display of erudition and interpretive subtlety is remarkable, not least becasue Saussy is able to articulate coherent problems from within what might otherwise seem an unmanageable wealth of details.”—Choice
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“This is a study of The Book of Odes, the Prefaces, and the enormous tradition of Odes scholarship. The display of erudition and interpretive subtlety is remarkable, not least becasue Saussy is able to articulate coherent problems from within what might otherwise seem an unmanageable wealth of details.”—Choice
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theoretical musings of a comparatist,
This review is from: Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) (Paperback)
As the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies exclaims, "this book is not for the faint of heart." Deftly moving from the Homer of Chinese antiquity--the Shi Jing, or the Book of Odes, to Leibniz, Hegel, and even oblique bits of Vico and Stephen Greenblatt, it attempts a theoretical encounter of allegory in the Chinese tradition. It' all here: questions of the possiblilty of the hermeneutical enterprise, the beginning of aesthetics, cross-cultural encounters, and comparative poetics. Saussy is quite stunning--while his argument is always one or serveral steps ahead of the reader, his mind is several leaps beyond his prose, which makes sometimes for excruciating and thorny reading. His philology will make the sinologist wince, and his implications set the comparatist fluttering.
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