Interpreting Love Narratives in East Asian Literature and Film

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, John R., 1955- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rhetoric--Textbooks.

Rhetoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of California, Berkeley [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book explores the role of traditional East Asian worldviews, ethical values, and common practices in the shaping of East Asian narratives in literature and film. It offers a specific method for this analysis. The interpretive goal is to arrive at interpretations that more accurately engage cultural information so that narratives are understood more closely in terms of their native cultural rather than that of the reader/interpreter. Current neuroscience related to processes of perception and the attribution of meaning form the basis for the theory of interpretation offered in the first half of the volume.

Contents:

I. About this book and this course

II. A Theory of Interpretation for Cross-Cultural Reading

III. Method - Elements of (Course) Interpretive Projects

IV. Method - Designing and Completing (Course) Interpretive Projects

V. Cultural Contexts - Traditional Thought Systems in East Asian Love Narratives

VI. Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts

Notes:

Description based on print resource