Diffusion of Distances: Dialogues Between Chinese and Western Poetics

by Wai-lim Yip

In this collection of passionately argued essays, the internationally acclaimed poet and critic Wai-lim Yip calls Western scholarship to account for its treacherous representation of non-Western literature. Yip moves from Plato to Hans-Georg Gadamer, from Chuang-tzu to Mao Tse-tung, from John Donne to Robert Creeley, as he attempts to create a double consciousness that includes the state of mind of the original author and the expressive potentials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520077369
• ISBN13: 9780520077362
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"