Retro and Retrogression: An Aesthetic Inquiry into the Origins of Chinese Retro-Literary Theory

Author: Liu Shaojin
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: This book takes the retro thinking and worldwide as a reference, conducting an in-depth exploration of the cultural prototypes and aesthetic spirit of the strong retro trend in ancient Chinese literary theory. The author argues that Confucian retro and Taoist retro not only propose the eternal anthropological proposition of the conflict between civilization and nature in unique ways but also deeply influence and lay the foundation for the thinking and content of the highly retro literary theory in later generations of China. The entire book, with an awareness and vision of mutual reference between the medieval and the later, contrast between Confucianism and Taoism, and mutual observation between Confucian and Taoist retro thinking and later retro poetics, offers highly illuminating interpretations of the aforementioned issues.