Author: Deborah Lynn Porter
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type of analysis based on a psychoanalytic theory of the symbol.
From Deluge to Discourse
Author: Deborah Lynn Porter
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type of analysis based on a psychoanalytic theory of the symbol.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430347
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Proposes a sweeping theory of flood myths, applies it to a particular text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, and opens up the world of Chinese fiction to an entirely new type of analysis based on a psychoanalytic theory of the symbol.
From Deluge to Discourse
Author: Deborah Lynn Porter
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438416342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Starting with a reevaluation of the critical scholarship done on the Chinese text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, the author challenges the view of the text as a product of historical composition. Porter then argues that the discursive structures of flood myths, elements of which appear in the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, have their origins in an attempt to mediate linguistically the frightening consequences of the falsification of cosmological truths. The heuristic potential of the psychoanalytical theory of the symbol is used to explain the specific cosmogonic intentions underlying the genesis of myth, as well as broader manifestations of historical, social, and cultural behavior, most particularly literary works like the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan. The author explains how mythic symbols invested with cosmogonic and regenerative significance are appropriated in the literary resolution of a socio-political trauma analogous to those mediated by flood myths. Finally, she argues that not simply the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan but Chinese fictional discourse in general is most appropriately understood as a wholly symbolic form.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438416342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Starting with a reevaluation of the critical scholarship done on the Chinese text, the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, the author challenges the view of the text as a product of historical composition. Porter then argues that the discursive structures of flood myths, elements of which appear in the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan, have their origins in an attempt to mediate linguistically the frightening consequences of the falsification of cosmological truths. The heuristic potential of the psychoanalytical theory of the symbol is used to explain the specific cosmogonic intentions underlying the genesis of myth, as well as broader manifestations of historical, social, and cultural behavior, most particularly literary works like the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan. The author explains how mythic symbols invested with cosmogonic and regenerative significance are appropriated in the literary resolution of a socio-political trauma analogous to those mediated by flood myths. Finally, she argues that not simply the Mu T'ien-tzu chuan but Chinese fictional discourse in general is most appropriately understood as a wholly symbolic form.
The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science
Author: William Denton
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Category : Bible and science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Category : Bible and science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Chinese Theories of Fiction
Author: Ming Dong Gu
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791481484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese fiction, or xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of the West, it has formed a system of fiction theory that cannot be adequately accounted for by Western fiction theory grounded in mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of Chinese fiction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data in fiction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fiction in relation to European and world fiction. In the process, Gu critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fiction and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fiction study in general and Chinese fiction in particular. Such masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed at length to advance his notion of fiction and fiction theory.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 0791481484
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In this innovative work, Ming Dong Gu examines Chinese literature and traditional Chinese criticism to construct a distinctly Chinese theory of fiction and places it within the context of international fiction theory. He argues that because Chinese fiction, or xiaoshuo, was produced in a tradition very different from that of the West, it has formed a system of fiction theory that cannot be adequately accounted for by Western fiction theory grounded in mimesis and realism. Through an inquiry into the macrocosm of Chinese fiction, the art of formative works, and theoretical data in fiction commentaries and intellectual thought, Gu explores the conceptual and historical conditions of Chinese fiction in relation to European and world fiction. In the process, Gu critiques and challenges some accepted views of Chinese fiction and provides a theoretical basis for fresh approaches to fiction study in general and Chinese fiction in particular. Such masterpieces as the Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase) and the Hongloumeng (The Story of the Stone) are discussed at length to advance his notion of fiction and fiction theory.
Three Physico-theological Discourses, Concerning I. The Primitive Chaos, and Creation of the World
Author: John Ray
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Category : Bible and science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
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Category : Bible and science
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Village Sermons, Or, Fifty-two Discourses on the Principal Doctrines of the Gospel, for Use of Families, Sunday Schools, Etc
Author: George Burder
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Sermons, English
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe, and the Changes Thereby Produced in the Animal Kingdom
Author: Georges baron Cuvier
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Discourses on Prophecy, in which are considered its structure, use, and inspiration: being the substance of twelve sermons preached in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, etc
Author: John DAVISON (B.D.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The new Sunday school teachers' Biblical dictionary
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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Languages : en
Pages : 1248
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The Household Bible Dictionary. New Illustrated Edition, Etc
Author: James Aitken WYLIE
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 694
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