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Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics

An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study

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Authors:
  1. John Z. Ming Chen

    1. College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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  2. Yuhua Ji

    1. Department of English, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

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  • Introduces new theories about the Dao, the Yin/Yang, and the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad

  • Surveys 76 key Daoism-related monographs written in English or Chinese

  • Discusses in detail Canadian-Daoist poetics, aesthetics, ethics and politics

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 1-6

  3. Malcolm Lowry and the Dao

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 7-28

  4. Fred Cogswell’s Paradoxical Poetics of Suggestive Silence, Elaboration, and the Dao’s Nature and Rhythms

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 29-48

  5. Lu Fo: Fusing Western and Daoist Poetics

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 49-72

  6. Paul Yee’s Daoist and Confucian Ethics and Values

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 73-89

  7. “The Voyage That Never Ends:” Malcolm Lowry’s Taoist Aesthetics of Return/Renewal

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 91-103

  8. Harmony, Beautiful Balance, and “Fearful Symmetry”: Aspects of Fred Cogswell’s Yin/Yang Aesthetics

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 105-123

  9. Jacques Derrida and Chuang Tzu: Some Analogies in Their Deconstructionist Discourse on Language and Truth

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 125-136

  10. Conclusion

    • John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji
    Pages 137-138

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 139-208
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About this book

This monograph takes an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approach to 20th and 21st -century Canadian Daoist poetry, fiction and criticism in comparative, innovative and engaging ways. Of particular interest are the authors’ refreshing insights into such holistic and topical issues as the globalization of concepts of the Dao, the Yin/Yang, the Heaven-Earth-Humanity triad, the Four Greats, Five Phases, Non-action and so on, as expressed in Canadian literature and criticism – which produces Canadian-constructed Daoist poetics, ethics and aesthetics. Readers will come to understand and appreciate the social and ecological significance of, formal innovations, moral sensitivity, aesthetic principles and ideological complexity in Canadian-Daoist works.

Reviews

“The volume is highly recommended not only for specialists in Chinese Studies, but anyone taking an interest in Daoism and in the way it operates in a modern Western literary framework.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 44 (03), September, 2018)

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    John Z. Ming Chen

  • Department of English, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China

    Yuhua Ji

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Canadian-Daoist Poetics, Ethics, and Aesthetics

  • Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary and Cross-cultural Study

  • Authors: John Z. Ming Chen, Yuhua Ji

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47959-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47958-2Published: 23 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51673-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47959-9Published: 09 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 208

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Aesthetics

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