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The Literary Mind and the Carving of DragonsThe Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

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The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

Liu Hsieh | Vincent Yu-chung Shih
US $19.95
publisher date
2015/01
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isbn
9789629965853
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book format
PDF
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publisher name
香港中文大學出版社
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文學 > 中國文學
The world is filled with ten thousand things in confusion:Never overtax your literary thought.The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and critics since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles, and a manual for good writing. Its chapters, organized according to the I Ching, cover such topics as “Emotion and Literary Expression,” “Humor and Enigma,” “Spiritual Thought or Imagination,” “The Nourishing of Vitality,”“Organization,” and “Literary Flaws.”“Mind” is the ideas, impressions, and emotions that take form—the “carving of the dragon”—in a literary work. Full of examples and delightful anecdotes drawn from Liu Hsieh’s encyclopedic knowledge of Chinese literature, readers will discover distinctive concepts and standards of the art of writing that are both familiar and strange. The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is not only a summa of classical Chinese literary aesthetics but also a wellspring of advice from the distant past on how to write.

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Liu Hsieh
Liu Hsieh (465–522) was a Chinese literary critic and a Buddhist monk in the Ting-lin Monastery.

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