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Pheasant Cap Master

Name: Pheasant Cap Master
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 04699641
Price: 101.33 EUR
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Author: Carine Defoort
ISBN: 9780791430736

A Rhetorical Reading

Carine Defoort

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04699641

Publishers State University of New York Press, September 1996

Preface Note on Citations 1. Pheasant Cap Master and the Paradox of Unity 1.1. Expectations of Uni... Full description

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Preface
Note on Citations

1. Pheasant Cap Master and the Paradox of Unity

1.1. Expectations of Unity
1.2. A Celebration of Fragments

Part One: The Pheasant Cap Master as a Fragmented Text

2. Biographical Evidence and Expectations Concerning Unity of Authorship

2.1. Place of Origin in Biographical and Bibliographical Notices
2.2. He guan zi's Place of Origin and Dates
2.3. Further Considerations Concerning Authorship

3. Bibliographical Evidence and Expectations Concerning Unity of Length and Filiation

3.1. The Length of the Pheasant Cap Master
3.2. The Filiation of the Pheasant Cap Master
3.3. The Conflation Hypothesis
3.4. Further Discussion Concerning Filiation

4. Commentarial Evidence and Expectations Concerning Stylistic Unity

4.1. Comments on a Work of Poor Style
4.2. Commentaries on the Pheasant Cap Master
4.3. From Poor Style to Plagiarism

5. Textual Evidence and Expectations Concerning Textual Unity

5.1. A Corrupt Text
5.2. From Textual Corruption to Commentarial Interpolation
5.3. Indirect Evidence
5.4. Direct Evidence

Part Two: The Pheasant Cap Master as a Rhetorical Text

6. A Work of Positive Rhetoric

6.1. Rhetoric, Politics, and Frustration
6.2. Admonishment of the Ruler
6.3. The Ruler and the Sage
6.4. Explaining Political Failure

7. Rhetorical Use of Language

7.1. With the Power of Words
7.2. Redefinitions as Arguments
7.3. Further Instances of the Power of Language

8. Political Views on Language

8.1. Discussions about Names
8.2. The Source of Names
8.3. Norms for Naming

9. Beyond Names

9.1. Laws of Nature
9.2. The Unnamed Source of Names
9.3. Naming from the Unnamed

Appendix 1. Taboos: the Distribution of zheng and duan in the He guan zi
Appendix 2. The Distribution of Names in the He guan zi
Appendix 3. Bibliographical Evidence in Sources from the Han through the Yuan
Appendix 4. Indirect Evidence in Sources Predating the First Extant Complete Edition
Appendix 5. The Chapters of the He guan zi

Notes

Bibliography

Original Text of The Pheasant Cap Master

Index