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By Cecile Chu-chin Sun

For greater than part a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been well-known as a proper educational self-discipline, yet critics and students within the box have performed little to improve a possible, universal foundation for comparability among those disparate literatures. during this pioneering publication, Cecile Chu-chin sunlight establishes repetition because the excellent standpoint from which to match the poetry and poetics from those traditions.

Sun contends that repetition is on the center of all that defines the lyric as a distinct paintings shape and, via heavily interpreting its use in chinese language and Western poetry, she demonstrates howone can establish small print of convergence and divergence. via a consultant sampling of poems from either traditions, she illustrates how the irreducible widely used nature of the lyric transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries but in addition unearths the basic differences among the traditions. so much crucially, she dissects the 2 considerably various conceptualizations of reality—mimesis and xing—that function underlying ideas for the poetic practices of every tradition.

Skillfully integrating thought and perform, The Poetics of Repetition in English and chinese language Lyric Poetryprovides a much-needed version for destiny examine of chinese language and English poetry in addition to lucid, succinct interpretations of person poems.

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