In the light of Chinese prosody and various mutually illuminating
major cases from the original English, Chinese, French, Japanese
and German classical literary texts, the book explores the
possibility of discovering "a road not taken" within the road
well-trodden in literature. In an approach of "what Wittgenstein
calls criss-crossing," this monographic study, the first ever of
this nature, as Roger T. Ames points out in the Foreword, also
emphasizes a pivotal "recognition that these Chinese values
[revealed in the book] are immediately relevant to the Western
narrative as well"; the book demonstrates, in other words, how such
a "criss-crossing" approach would be unequivocally possible as long
as our critical attention be adequately turned to or pivoted upon
the "trivial" matters, a posteriori, in accordance with the live
syntactic-prosodic context, such as pauses, stresses, phonemes,
function words, or the at once text-enlivened and text-enlivening
ambiguity of "parts of speech," which often vary or alter
simultaneously according to and against any definitive definition
or set category a priori. This issue pertains to any literary text
across cultures because no literary text would ever be possible if
it were not, for instance, literally enlivened by the otherwise
overlooked "meaningless" function words or phonemes; the texts
simultaneously also enliven these "meaningless" elements and often
turn them surreptitiously into sometimes serendipitously meaningful
and beautiful sea-change-effecting "les mots justes." Through the
immeasurable and yet often imperceptible influences of these
exactly "right words," our literary texts, such as a poem, could
thus not simply "be" but subtly "mean" as if by mere means of its
simple, rich, and naturally worded being, truly a special "word
picture" of das Ding an sich. Describable metaphorically as "museum
effect" and "symphonic tapestry," a special synaesthetic impact
could also likely result from such les-mots-justes-facilitated
subtle and yet phenomenal sea changes in the texts.
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