12 “The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Lowered Curtains in the Half-Light 1
6. The Art of Withholding
7. The Ruling Mind 33
8. Beliefs about Social Seeing 53
9. Woman in the Tower 79
10. Hiding Behind a Woman 99
11. The Lessons of Distraction
12. Hiddenness of the Body and the Metaphysics of Sight 125
13. Worlds of Meaning and the Meaning of Worlds in Sikong Tu’s Twenty-Four Modes of Poetry 153
14. On Blind Spots
15. Hidden in Plain View 177
16. The Vernacular Story and the Hiddenness of Value 207
17. Absence and Presence 227
18. The Languages of Synecdoche
19. Synecdoche of the Imaginary 261
20. “The Disarrayed Hills Conceal an Old Monastery” 279
21. Just Words
22. Manifesting Sagely Knowledge 303
23. The Yi-Xiang-Yan Paradigm and Early Chinese Theories of Literary Creation 333
24. Contributors 359
25. Index 363