Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a
comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful
attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese
and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in
the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise
to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative
scholarship.
In these essays, Yu explores the overlap between literature and
religion in Chinese and Western literature. He opens with a
principal method for relating texts to religion and follows with
several essays that apply this approach to single texts in discrete
traditions: the Greek religion in Prometheus; Christian theology in
Milton; ancient Chinese philosophical thought in Laozi; and Chinese
religious syncretism in "The Journey to the West,"
Yu's essays juxtapose Chinese and Western texts& mdash;
"Cratylus" next to "Xunzi," for example& mdash;and discuss
their relationship to language and subjects, such as liberal Greek
education against general education in China. He compares a
specific Western text and religion to a specific Chinese text and
religion. He considers the Divina Commedia in the context of
Catholic theology alongside The Journey to the West as it relates
to Chinese syncretism, united by the theme of pilgrimage. Yet Yu's
focus isn't entirely tied to the classics. He also considers the
struggle for human rights in China and how this topic relates to
ancient Chinese social thought and modern notions of rights in the
West.
"In virtually every high-cultural system," Yu writes, "be it the
Indic, the Islamic, the Sino-Japanese, or the Judeo&
mdash;Christian, the literarytradition has developed in
intimate& mdash;indeed, often intertwining-relation to
religious thought, practice, institution, and symbolism."
"Comparative Journeys" is a major step toward unraveling this
complexity, revealing through the skilled observation of texts the
extraordinary intimacy between two supposedly disparate languages
and cultures.
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