Approaches to the Oriental ClassicsWilliam Theodore De Bary Columbia University Press, 1959 - 262 pages |
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Page 174
... novel's possible value in a " Great Books " course , in view of the ignominious position it occupied in the traditional Chinese view of literature . These works , which we are discussing here ... novel defiantly re- 174 THE CHINESE NOVEL.
... novel's possible value in a " Great Books " course , in view of the ignominious position it occupied in the traditional Chinese view of literature . These works , which we are discussing here ... novel defiantly re- 174 THE CHINESE NOVEL.
Page 175
... novels of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce , the Western reader of the Chinese novel need no longer be shocked as he once might have been . The Chinese novel remained indecently subversive . It retained to the end the rough , indifferent ...
... novels of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce , the Western reader of the Chinese novel need no longer be shocked as he once might have been . The Chinese novel remained indecently subversive . It retained to the end the rough , indifferent ...
Page 176
... novel to become respectable or even legitimate until recent times meant that it never achieved the status of a serious and dominant literary form , as was the case of the European novel in the nineteenth century . In range , quantity ...
... novel to become respectable or even legitimate until recent times meant that it never achieved the status of a serious and dominant literary form , as was the case of the European novel in the nineteenth century . In range , quantity ...
Contents
Opening Remarks by Jacques Barzun THE TEACHING OF | 3 |
Great BooksEast and West by Mark Van Doren | 7 |
Education in a Multicultural World by Thomas Berry 24 On Exploiting the Greek Analogy by Moses Hadas | 24 |
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