Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and LettersThis translation of 65 pieces from Qian Zhongshu's Guanzhui bian (Limited Views) makes available for the first time in English a representative selection from Qian's massive four-volume collection of essays and reading notes on the classics of early Chinese literature. |
Contents
CONTENTS | 13 |
The Meaning Surpasses the Image | 29 |
Worldly Frustration and Literary Composition | 35 |
Personal Conduct and Literary Style | 41 |
Poetic Landscapes and Fidelity to Nature | 48 |
The Corruption of Consciousness | 56 |
Sadness as the Primary Value in Music | 67 |
Saddened by a Height | 74 |
The Insights and Myopia of Mystical Philosophies | 263 |
67 | 267 |
Heaven and Earth Are Inhuman the Sage Is Inhuman | 269 |
Modeling Oneself on Nature | 282 |
74 | 289 |
Fallacia Divisionis | 290 |
On Not Speaking While Speaking | 297 |
Right Words Look Like Contradictions | 304 |
Complex Emotions in Literature | 83 |
Script and Nature Script and Painting | 91 |
Resonance in Criticism on the Arts | 97 |
Metaphors Have Two Handles and Several Sides | 121 |
Human Life Is Like Ice | 130 |
Gifts with Symbolic Meanings | 141 |
The Domesticating Metaphor | 148 |
Synaesthesia | 155 |
The Name but Not the Reality | 163 |
Impossible Tropes | 171 |
On Not Recognizing Mirrors | 180 |
The Motif of the Other Shore | 189 |
The Hermeneutic Circle | 195 |
Characters with Multiple Meanings Used Simultaneously | 202 |
Dialectics in Words and Emotions | 208 |
Chiasmus | 215 |
Quoting Out of Context | 221 |
Poetic Conventions and the Problem of Distorted Meaning | 231 |
Literary Style and the Detection of Forgeries | 239 |
61 | 247 |
Literary Writing and Utilitarian Prose | 248 |
On Laozi with Reference to Buddhism | 255 |
Fate Versus Divine Justice | 311 |
Witchcraft | 326 |
86 | 330 |
More Joy on Earth than in Heaven | 332 |
Time in Heaven Earth and Hell | 339 |
Rebuking Heaven | 345 |
Born from a Brush and Killed by a Painting | 353 |
Stupefying the People | 363 |
The Concepts Chinese and Barbarian | 373 |
Giving Books to the Barbarians | 382 |
91 | 391 |
Marriage and Fate | 393 |
Monks and Lice | 401 |
Tears at Partings | 412 |
97 | 416 |
421 | |
121 | 456 |
Finding List | 463 |
130 | 465 |
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