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Author : Robert Shanmu Chen
Release : 1990*
Genre : Time
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Book Synopsis A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths by : Robert Shanmu Chen
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths written by Robert Shanmu Chen. This book was released on 1990*. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Shanmu Chen
Release : 1992
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Synopsis A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths by : Robert Shanmu Chen
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths written by Robert Shanmu Chen. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cyclic myth is a temporal schema of the unity of man and the cosmos. It identifies man with the periodic becoming and perpetual regeneration in nature, and guarantees personal duration against the flux of time. It has imprints on every sphere of human experience in Chinese and Western cultures. The author first traces the origin, formation, abstraction and presentation of the cyclic myth in Chinese mythology, ritual, philosophy and literature, and confirms that the cyclic ontology is the core of Chinese culture. He then adumbrates the transmutation of the cyclic mentality in the linear eschatology of the Western culture and its impact in literature from Dante, Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Goethe, Shelley and Yeats to Joyce and Beckett. The author concludes with the assertion that the cyclic myth is an informing structure of literary works and an index of cultures.
Author : Jörn Rüsen
Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 417/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Time and History by : Jörn Rüsen
Download or read book Time and History written by Jörn Rüsen. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This series aims at bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory as well as western and non-western concepts, for which this volume offers a particularly good example. It explores cultural differences in conceptualizing time and history in countries such as China, Japan, and India as well as pre-modern societies.
Author : Robert Shan-Mu Chen
Release : 1977
Genre : Mythology in literature
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Book Synopsis Aspects of Cyclic Myth in Chinese and Western Literature by : Robert Shan-Mu Chen
Download or read book Aspects of Cyclic Myth in Chinese and Western Literature written by Robert Shan-Mu Chen. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Birrell
Release : 1999-04-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Chinese Mythology by : Anne Birrell
Download or read book Chinese Mythology written by Anne Birrell. This book was released on 1999-04-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before been translated into any Western language. Organizing the narratives according to themes and motifs common to world mythology, Birrell addresses issues of source, dating, attribution, textural variants, multiforms, and context. Drawing on exhaustive work in comparative mythology, she surveys the development of Chinese myth studies, summarizes the contribution of Chinese and Japanese scholars to the study of Chinese myth since the 1920s, and examines special aspects of traditional approaches to Chinese myth. The result is an unprecedented guide to the study of Chinese myth for specialists and nonspecialists alike.
