Unexpected Affinities : : Reading Across Cultures / / Zhang Longxi.
East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study, renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions in the East and West....
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Alexander Lectures
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability
- 2. 'Faire une perle d'une larme': Reading across Cultures
- 3. 'Within the infant rind of this weak flower': The Ambivalence of Poison and Medicine
- 4. 'A paradise within thee, happier far': The Dialectic of Return and Reversal
- Index