Abstract:: In their article “Comparative Poetics in Chinese” Xiaolu Wang and Yan Liu describe the development of comparative poetics by sketching major publications and the general institutional situation of t...: In their article “Comparative Poetics in Chinese” Xiaolu Wang and Yan Liu describe the development of comparative poetics by sketching major publications and the general institutional situation of the discipline. Wang and Liu suggest that comparative work remains impulsive although dynamic. Like other fields in the humanities, the study of poetics—comparative or other—in Chinese is no longer traditional in terms of a discursive form, but copied from the West. Although the scholarly achievements in the field within the past thirty years are considerable, problems remain including the issue of translation of Western theories and the approaching foreign scholarship with narrow minded nationalism. Wang's and Liu's postulate that the role scholars working in Chinese ought to knowledge from the ways of how the issues and questions studied would cross cultural boundaries.Read More
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-02
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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