"The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons" and Twentieth-Century Western Literary Theory

Author: Wang Hongzhang
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book attempts to establish a comparative research framework of "mutual verification and interpretation" between The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons and the main literary theory schools of Western 20th century. Part one compares and studies the relevant critical thoughts of Liu Xie and Russian Formalism, as well as the on literary history views, the aesthetic characteristics of literary language, and literary form criticism methods. Part two compares and studies the meaning interpretation of Liu Xie's Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist critical perspectives with the phenomenological hermeneutic theories of Roman Ingarden, William, Max, Martin, and Hans-Georg.