Chinese Approaches to Literature from Confucius to Liang Ch'i-Ch'ao

Adele Austin Rickett, W. Rickett

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780691600949, 9780691063430
• eBook ISBN: 9781400870868
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Asian Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

These essays, by Chinese and Western scholars, treat selected aspects of Chinese literary theory, history, and criticism from the age of Confucius to the beginning of the twentieth-century.

The topics examined include Confucius as a literary critic (Donald Holzman); the view of ch'i, or vital force, as a decisive element in creative writing (David Pollard); the literary theories of the eleventh-century poet and essayist Ou-yang Hsiu (Yu-shih Chen) and his contemporary Huang T'ing-chien (Adele Rickett); and the seventeenth-century philosopher-poet Wang Fu-chih (Siu-kit Wong). Other essays consider the Ch'ang-chou School of the Ch'ing dynasty (Florence Chia-ying Yeh Chao); the distinctive methods of criticism applied to the Dream of the Red Chamber by the Chih-yen chai commentators (John Wang); and the educative function of fiction as outlined by Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and Yen Fu at the turn of the century (C.T. Hsia).

Originally published in 1978.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Chronology of Chinese Dynasties
• Abbreviations
• Introduction Adele Austin Rickett
• Confucius and Ancient Chinese Literary Criticism Donald Holzman
• Ch'i in Chinese Literary Theory David Pollard
• The Literary Theory and Practice of Ou-yang Hsiu Yu-Shih Chen
• Method and Intuition: The Poetic Theories of Huang T'ing-chien Adele Austin Rickett
• Ch'ing and Ching in the Critical Writings of Wang Fu-chih Siu-Kit Wong
• The Ch'ang-chou School of Tz'u Criticism Chia-Ying Yeh Chao
• The Chih-yen-chai Commentary and the Dream of the Red Chamber: A Literary Study John C. Y. Wang
• Yen Fu and Liang Ch'i-ch'ao as Advocates of New Fiction C. T. Hsia
• List of Contributors
• Index