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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index
Major Chinese Dynasties -- - Macrocosmic Structures of Western and Chinese Poetics -- - The Orientation of Western Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as Truth, Untruth, or Antitruth -- - The Orientation of Chinese Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as a Harmonizing Process -- - Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts of Literature -- - The Systematics of Western and Chinese Poetics: Common Denominators, Differentiae, and Cosmological Paradigms -- - Microcosmic Textures of Western and Chinese Poetics -- - Poetics of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry -- - Poetics of Imagination: Wordsworth and Liu Xie on Literary Creation -- - Poetics of Dynamic Force: Fenollosa, Pound, and Chinese Critics on the Chinese Written Character -- - Poetics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Madhyamika Buddhists on Language and Ontotheologies -- - Epilogue: Reflections: Intracultural, Cross-cultural, and Transcultural Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism
