Lexington Books
Pages: 278
Trim: 6 1/4 x 9
978-1-4985-7338-2 • Hardback • October 2018 • $95.00 • (£65.00)
978-1-4985-7339-9 • eBook • October 2018 • $90.00 • (£60.00)
Shudong Chen is professor of humanities at Johnson County Community College.
Foreword by Roger T. Ames
Acknowledgments
Part One: Content Words
Chapter 1: A Word that Makes a World of Difference
Chapter 2: “Le Mot Juste” and “Content Words”
Chapter 3: “Les Mots Justes” as Choices
Part Two: Function Words
Chapter 4: The Unheard Melodies of the Trivial
Chapter 5: Indispensability of Function Words as Life-Makers
Chapter 6: Serendipity of the Familiar
Chapter 7: Function words as “Les Mots Justes”
Chapter 8: “Museum Effect” as “Le Mot Juste” – Mediated “Symphonic Tapestry”
Bibliography
This is a fascinating journey search for le mot juste in a worded world, packed with sharp, rich, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural insights into eye-catching, ear-enamoring, and soul-nourishing Chinese poetry and comparative prosody.
— Robin R. Wang, author of Yinyang: The Way of heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture
This book integrates the studies of prosody, literature and philosophy, revealing Chen’s deep understanding of Western philosophy and Chinese classics. From a linguistic point of view, especially a prosodic one, the book studies Chinese poetic literature with a comparative view of Western poetic literature, exhibiting multidimensional perspectives with cutting-edge discussions of intimate interactions of sound, thought and literary diction. Chen has brought fresh air to literary studies and new insights to modern linguistics with this book.
— Shengli Feng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong