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This book applies a new model of comparative literature that gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. In case studies that include Leibniz, the Book of Odes, and Hegel, it explores the intersection between translation and allegory.

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"This is a study of The Book of Odes, the Prefaces, and the enormous tradition of Odes scholarship. The display of erudition and interpretive subtlety is remarkable, not least becasue Saussy is able to articulate coherent problems from within what might otherwise seem an unmanageable wealth of details." -- Choice

Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. The question of Chinese allegory; 2. The other side of allegory; 3. The prefaces as introduction to the Book of Odes; 4. The Odes as exemplary readings; 5. Hegel's Chinese imagination; 6. Conclusion: comparative comparative literature; Notes; Bibliography; Chinese character list; Index.

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/1993
      ISBN13: 9780804720748, 978-0804720748
      ISBN10: 0804720746

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book applies a new model of comparative literature that gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. In case studies that include Leibniz, the Book of Odes, and Hegel, it explores the intersection between translation and allegory.

      Trade Review
      "This is a study of The Book of Odes, the Prefaces, and the enormous tradition of Odes scholarship. The display of erudition and interpretive subtlety is remarkable, not least becasue Saussy is able to articulate coherent problems from within what might otherwise seem an unmanageable wealth of details." -- Choice

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. The question of Chinese allegory; 2. The other side of allegory; 3. The prefaces as introduction to the Book of Odes; 4. The Odes as exemplary readings; 5. Hegel's Chinese imagination; 6. Conclusion: comparative comparative literature; Notes; Bibliography; Chinese character list; Index.

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