Comparative Journeys : : Essays on Literature and Religion East and West / / Anthony Yu.
Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the con...
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Yu, Anthony, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Comparative Journeys : Essays on Literature and Religion East and West / Anthony Yu. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2008] ©2008 1 online resource (432 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Masters of Chinese Studies Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Literature and Religion -- 2. New Gods and Old Order -- 3. Life in the Garden -- 4. The Order of Temptations in Paradise Regained -- 5. Problems and Prospects in Chinese-Western Literary Relations -- 6. Narrative Structure and the Problem of Chapter Nine in the Xiyouji -- 7. Two Literary Examples of Religious Pilgrimage -- 8. Religion and Literature in China -- 9. The Real Tripitaka Revisited -- 10. "Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit!" -- 11. Cratylus and the Xunzi on Names -- 12. Reading the Daodejing: Ethics and Politics of the Rhetoric -- 13. Altered Accents: A Comparative View of Liberal Education -- 14. Readability: Religion and the Reception of Translation -- 15. Enduring Change: Confucianism and the Prospect of Human Rights -- 16. China and the Problem of Human Rights: Ancient Verities and Modern Realities -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative scholarship. In these essays, Yu explores the overlap between literature and religion in Chinese and Western literature. He opens with a principal method for relating texts to religion and follows with several essays that apply this approach to single texts in discrete traditions: the Greek religion in Prometheus; Christian theology in Milton; ancient Chinese philosophical thought in Laozi; and Chinese religious syncretism in The Journey to the West. Yu's essays juxtapose Chinese and Western textsCratylus next to Xunzi, for exampleand discuss their relationship to language and subjects, such as liberal Greek education against general education in China. He compares a specific Western text and religion to a specific Chinese text and religion. He considers the Divina Commedia in the context of Catholic theology alongside The Journey to the West as it relates to Chinese syncretism, united by the theme of pilgrimage. Yet Yu's focus isn't entirely tied to the classics. He also considers the struggle for human rights in China and how this topic relates to ancient Chinese social thought and modern notions of rights in the West. "In virtually every high-cultural system," Yu writes, "be it the Indic, the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese, or the JudeoChristian, the literary tradition has developed in intimateindeed, often intertwining-relation to religious thought, practice, institution, and symbolism." Comparative Journeys is a major step toward unraveling this complexity, revealing through the skilled observation of texts the extraordinary intimacy between two supposedly disparate languages and cultures. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Chinese literature - History and criticism. Chinese literature History and criticism. Literature History and criticism. Religion in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package 9783110649772 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442472 print 9780231143264 https://doi.org/10.7312/yu--14326 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231512503 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231512503/original |
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