Yu Comparative Journeys

Essays on Literature and Religion East and West
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-231-51250-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Masters of Chinese Studies

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Yu, Anthony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Literature and Religion
2. New Gods and Old Order: Tragic Theology in Prometheus Bound
3. Life in the Garden: Freedom and the Image of God in Paradise Lost
4. The Order of Temptations in Paradise Regained: Implications for Christology
5. Problems and Prospects in Chinese-Western Literary Relations
6. Narrative Structure and the Problem of Chapter Nine in the Xiyouji
7. Two Literary Examples of Religious Pilgrimage: The Commedia and The Journey to the West
8. Religion and Literature in China: The "Obscure Way" of The Journey to the West
9. The Real Tripitaka Revisited: International Religion and National Politics
10. "Rest, Rest, Perturbed Spirit!": Ghosts in Traditional Chinese Prose Fiction
11. Cratylus and the Xunzi on Names
12. Reading the Daodejing: Ethics and Politics of the Rhetoric
13. Altered Accents: A Comparative View of Liberal Education
14. Readability: Religion and the Reception of Translation
15. Enduring Change: Confucianism and the Prospect of Human Rights
16. China and the Problem of Human Rights: Ancient Verities and Modern Realities
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony C. Yu is Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and professor emeritus of religion and literature in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. A native of Hong Kong, He received his doctorate at The University of Chicago and held concurrent faculty appointments in the departments of East Asian languages and civilizations, English, and comparative literature, and on The Committee on Social Thought. Best known for his complete, annotated translation of The Journey to the West, Yu has also published Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in "Dream of the Red Chamber" and State and Religion in China: Historical and Textual Perspectives. A revised, abridged version of The Journey to the West was published in 2006 as The Monkey and the Monk.