Narrative theory in the West has been novel-centred-it has often been assumed to be the norm of narrative practice, in the modern European novel of the late-eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. However, a novel-centred theory cannot account for the peculiar power of …
This pioneering book compares Chinese and Western thought to offer a bracing and unpredictable cross-cultural conversation. The work contributes to the emerging field of Sino-Hellenic studies, which links two great and influential cultures that, in fact, had virtually no contact…
