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By Longxi Zhang

Questions of the character of figuring out and interpretation—hermeneutics—are primary in human existence, although traditionally Westerners have tended to contemplate those questions inside a only Western context. during this comparative learn, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the principal figures of fact and which means in either jap and Western notion: the Tao and the trademarks. the writer develops a strong cross-cultural and interdisciplinary hermeneutic research that relates person works of literature not just to their respective cultures, yet to a mixed worldview the place East meets West.
Zhang's e-book brings jointly philosophy and literature, conception and functional feedback, the Western and the non-Western in defining universal flooring on which East and West may well come to a mutual knowing. He offers remark at the wealthy traditions of poetry and poetics in historic China; both illuminating are Zhang's astute analyses of Western poets comparable to Rilke, Shakespeare, and Mallarmé and his serious engagement with the paintings of Foucault, Derrida, and de guy, between others.
Wide-ranging and discovered, this definitive paintings in East-West comparative poetics and the hermeneutic culture should be of curiosity to experts in comparative literature, philosophy, literary thought, poetry and poetics, and chinese language literature and history.

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