7 Marcel Granet and the Poetics of the Primeval Scene

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. The Shepherd Dreams—The Great Man Divines 1
5. Metaphor’s Other
6. The Concept and Conceptuality of Xing 17
7. Intertextuality and Orality in C. H. Wang’s The Bell and the Drum 23
8. Chen Shih-hsiang and the Primal Scene 37
9. The Totemic Xing 43
10. Rhyme without Reason 45
11. Xing and the Art of Quoting the Odes 51
12. Marcel Granet and the Poetics of the Primeval Scene 55
13. Nature Is Metaphorical, Poetry Literal 61
14. Discipline and Comfort 79
15. Dichotomy Reenforced 85
16. Uncomfortable Sinology 87
17. Primary Metapoetics, Authorial Intent, and Textual Integrity in the Odes 93
18. Xing and the Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics
19. The Metaphor 109
20. The Commentary versus the Minor Preface 119
21. The Great Preface, a Rereading 123
22. The Minor Prefaces 143
23. In Service to Two Masters 151
24. Mao’s “Canonical” Xing 155
25. Analogy and Instrumentality 215
26. Xing, Ironically 241
27. Mao’s Pragmatic Hermeneutics 267
28. Intertextuality and Repetition 297
29. Crisis—Causality 341
30. Reorientation and Conclusion 361
31. Appendixes 367
32. Afterword and Acknowledgments 403
33. Notes 405
34. Bibliography 471
35. Index I 485
36. Index II 489