Synthetic parallelism : a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of Comparative Studies between Chinese and Foreign Literature
Publication Date
1-1-1989
Volume
20
Issue
2
First Page
151
Last Page
168
Publisher
Tamkang University
Keywords
synthetic parallelism, xing (hsing), correlative episteme, Foucault, Boodberg, Yeats, Robert Lowth, Jakobson, Jung, Pound
Abstract
Parallelism which consists in the similar form of construction rather than in content is called by Robert Lowth as synthetic parallelism. It exemplifies correlative episteme which constitutes a universal mode of understanding and poetic expression in ancient folk traditions and which provides modern Western poets, critics, and philosophers with models of non-rational thought for their revolts against the representational episteme. It is a matrix of modern literary criticism in the sense that its multiple dimensions have been used in different ways by philological, Imagist, Romantic, Jungian, and Structuralist critics to vindicate their fundamental arguments on literature and truth. With little mutual encouragement, John F. Davis, Ezra Pound, Roman Jakobson hail xing (hsing), the Chinese synthetic parallelism, as an ideal model of non-representational thinking.
Print ISSN
00492949
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Language
English
Recommended Citation
Cai, Z.-q. (1989). Synthetic parallelism: A cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary study. Tamkang Review: A Quarterly of Comparative Studies between Chinese and Foreign Literature, 20(2), 151-168.