Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 375 citations · 0 references
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The volume includes key Chinese literary works such as Liu Hsieh’s 6th‑century Wen‑hsin tiao‑lung, Ssu‑K'ung T'u’s 9th‑century Twenty‑Four Categories of Remarks on Poetry, and Yen Yu’s shih‑hua collection Remarks on Poetry. The book compiles seven major works and numerous shorter pieces, offering original texts, translations, and commentary to explore how Western and Chinese literary theories diverge. Owen draws on classical Chinese texts and scholarship to trace over 2000 years of literary thought, providing detailed commentary alongside translations. The bilingual volume is deemed indispensable for Chinese literature students and offers Western theorists direct access to Chinese thought through its translations and commentaries.
In this compilation of seven major works and dozens of shorter pieces, Stephen Owen provides original texts, translations, and detailed commentary for fundamental works in Chinese literary thought from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty. Included are the systematic sixth-century Wen-hsin tiao-lung of Liu Hsieh, the mysterious ninth-century Twenty-Four Categories of Remarks on Poetry of Ssu-K'ung T'u, and the influential shih-hua collection Ts'ang-lang's Remarks on Poetry by Yen Yu. Owen draws on classical Chinese texts and scholarship to trace more than 2000 years of Chinese literary thought. He also explains how Western and Chinese literary theory diverge. This volume, with adjacent Chinese and English, should be indispensable to students of Chinese literature, while the translations and commentaries should give Western literary theorists access to Chinese thought.