The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Shepherd Dreams-The Great Man Divines

Part I: Metaphor's Other: The Discourse on "Imagery" in Modern Shijing Scholarship and Sinography

1. The Concept and Conceptuality of Xing

2. Intertextuality and Orality in C. H. Wang's The Bell and the Drum

3. Chen Shih-hsiang and the Primal Scene

4. The Totemic Xing

5. Rhyme without Reason

6. Xing and the Art of Quoting the Odes

7. Marcel Granet and the Poetics of the Primeval Scene

8. Nature Is Metaphorical, Poetry Literal

9. Discipline and Comfort: The comparatisme de la difference

10. Dichotomy Reenforced

11. Uncomfortable Sinology: Confucian Exegesis as a Performative Mode of Reading

12. Primary Metapoetics, Authorial Intent, and Textual Integrity in the Odes

Part II: Xing and the Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics

13. The Metaphor: A Return to Richards

14. The Commentary versus the Minor Preface

15. The Great Preface, a Rereading

16. The Minor Prefaces

17. In Service to Two Masters

18. Mao's "Canonical" Xing

19. Analogy and Instrumentality: The "Analogical Xing"

20. Xing, Ironically

21. Mao's Pragmatic Hermeneutics

22. Intertextuality and Repetition

23. Crisis-Causality

24. Reorientation and Conclusion

Appendix A. The Xing: Supporting Evidence
Appendix B. Inconclusive Commentaries
Appendix C. Inconclusive Odes about Confucian Hierarchy
Afterword and Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index I
Index II