To Perceive and to Represent: A Comparative Study of Chinese and English Poetics of Nature ImageryDrawing on classical Chinese poetics and English criticism from the eighteenth century to the Romantic period, this book is an intercultural study of the poetics of nature imagery. It addresses the two interrelated issues of mental perception and poetic representation of nature and pays special attention to theories of integrating natural imagery and human sentiment. By contextualizing several major premises covering a similar area of critical concern in two different traditions, it suggests the possibility of constructing a common poetics in a specifically demarcated area. |
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INTRODUCTION COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | 1 |
THE RISE OF THE REAL SCENE | 11 |
The Most Artful Fiction Must Give | 18 |
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abstract Aikin analogy autumn Ban Gu beautiful become Biographia chapter Classic of Poetry clouds Coleridge Coleridge's comparison concept correspondence cosmology couplet describe descriptions of nature descriptive poetry direct observation Du Fu eighteenth century emotions English example expression external fusion Heaven human idea images imagination immediacy to experience Jiangzhai John Aikin landscape language lines literary Liu Xie metaphor mode moral natural objects nature imagery passion pastoral perceived personification philosophical poetics poem poet poet's poetic imagery poetic mind poetic perception poetics of nature practical criticism principle Prose Reason refers remark representation of nature rhetorical Romantic critics scenes and objects sense sentiment Six Dynasties Stephen Owen subtle comprehension Tao Qian technical poetics theory things Thomson's thought truth unifying unity Wang Changling Wang Fuzhi Wang's Warton word Wordsworth Xiao Xie Lingyun Xie Zhen Xie's xing Yang Xiong Ye Xie Zhang Zhong Rong Zuo Si's Zuo's