Shudong Chen

Four Quartets in the Light of the Chinese Jar

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Produktbeschreibung

With Four Quartets as the supreme example, this is the first book that discusses how reading and understanding could often be surreptitiously and serendipitously influenced by the "invisible" but prosodically indispensable text-enlivened and text-enlivening "trivial" function words to result in often easily overlooked subtle but vital "sea changes"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 593g
• ISBN-13: 9781793631657
• ISBN-10: 1793631654
• Artikelnr.: 60153706

Autorenporträt

Shudong Chen is professor of humanities at Johnson County Community College.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Geology of Narrative Cultures: Still Motion, Matrix of Void of
the Chinese Jar, and Hidden Message of Function Words
Chapter 2: "Burnt Norton": Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion
Captured in Worded World
Chapter 3: "East Coker": Knowing Time as Stranded on Land but Enlivened in
Words
Chapter 4: "The Dry Salvages": Knowing Oneself through Function
Words-Mediated Oceanic View of Time
Chapter 5: "Little Gidding": Reconciliation of the Irreconcilable in the
Mode of "a Chinese Jar" through Timely Timeless Time in Motionless Motion
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Interdisciplinary References that Illuminate from
within and across Cultures