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<p>In attempting to define a "poetics of paradox" from a traditional Chinese standpoint, James Liu explores through a comparative approach linguistic, textual, and interpretive problems of relevance to Western literary criticism. Liu's study evolves from a paradoxical view--originating from early Confucian and Daoist philosophical texts--that the less is "said" in poetry, the more is "meant." Such a view implied the existence of paradox in the very use of language and led traditional Chinese her

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Author

James J. Y. Liu, Richard John Lynn

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691634999

Category

language

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Fiction, Language Learning

Updated

2026-03-25