A Comparative Study of Reception, Lyric Genres, and Semiotic Tools: Essays in Literary Criticism; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part One -- Comparative Lyric Genres; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- Carpe Diem Poetry; Chapter Three -- Landscape Poetry; Chapter Four -- Love Poetry; Chapter Five -- Female-Persona Lyrics; Chapter Six -- Ekphrastic Poetry; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion; Part Two -- Reception Studies; Chapter One -- Introduction; Chapter Two -- Modernism in Modern Poetry of Taiwan: A Comparative Perspective
Chapter Three -- Hu Shi's Poetic Program and New Poems: Wordsworth, Imagism, and Effective ContactsChapter Four -- Satanism in Lu Xun's Prose Poems Wild Grass: Nietzsche, Freud, and Japanese Mediation; Chapter Five -- Conclusion; References; Index
A first ever work on comparative genre papers covering several genres on materials drawn from Chinese and Western literary traditions. The ultimate goal of the book is to describe a general, semiotics-based poetics of comparative genres and of the literary reception process
