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The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons

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The_The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons_ (Chinese: 《文心雕龍》; pinyin: Wén Xīn Diāo Lóng) is China's first work of aesthetics and also the first systematic work of literary criticism from that country. Its author, Liu Xie [ca. 465-ca. 522], composed the work in fifty chapters (篇) according to the principles of numerology and divination found in the Book of Changes or I Ching.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Literary_Mind_and_the_Carving_of_Dragons

The Chinese text is at Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/23822
文心雕龍 by Xie Liu

And a scholarly study here:

http://www.escholarship.org/edition...toc.depth=1&brand=ucpress&anchor.id=bkd0e6081

"The first theorist who discoursed on the aesthetic activity of "secret echoes and complementary correspondences" was Liu Hsieh of the fifth century. His model is the I Ching . In a chapter entitled "The Hidden and the Manifest" in his The Dragon-Carving of the Literary Mind , he says:

The movement of the mind's craft is distant indeed! And profound is the change of literature's pulsations. With deep sources to feed the tributaries and strong roots to support lush leaves, the growth of literature has both the manifest and hidden levels. What is meant by "the hidden" is its doubling of motifs; what is meant by "the manifest" is the prominently unique in a piece of writing. The hidden excel in incremental "senses"; the manifest show skillfulness in being matchless. . . . The body of "the hidden" actualizes itself in having meanings growing outside of the text, with secret echoes and complementary correspondences, with latent colors emerging from the deep, the way the change of lines in the hexagrams gives rise to nuclear trigrams. . . . Therefore, nuclear trigrams and line changes to complete the transformations of four forms."

Persons interested in the interconnectivity of hexagrams may find this work of special interest.

Tom
 

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Nice links, Tom. Thanks for sharing.
 

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