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A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Cyclic Myths
Robert Shanmu Chen
出版
P. Lang
, 1992
主題
Foreign Language Study / Miscellaneous
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Literary Criticism / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Philosophy / Metaphysics
Science / Time
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Folklore & Mythology
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0820416754
9780820416755
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JlvXAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The cyclic myth is a temporal schema of the unity of man and the cosmos. It identifies man with the periodic becoming and perpetual regeneration in nature, and guarantees personal duration against the flux of time. It has imprints on every sphere of human experience in Chinese and Western cultures. The author first traces the origin, formation, abstraction and presentation of the cyclic myth in Chinese mythology, ritual, philosophy and literature, and confirms that the cyclic ontology is the core of Chinese culture. He then adumbrates the transmutation of the cyclic mentality in the linear eschatology of the Western culture and its impact in literature from Dante, Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Goethe, Shelley and Yeats to Joyce and Beckett. The author concludes with the assertion that the cyclic myth is an informing structure of literary works and an index of cultures.