| Titre | The Difficulty of pleasure | |
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| Auteur | Stephen Owen | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 20, 1998 Du divertissement dans la Chine et le Japon anciens. « Homo Ludens Extreme-Orientalis » | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | I. Les critiques du divertissement |
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| Page | 9-30 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Chinese tradition solved the problem of literary representation of desire (conceptualized as a process moving from absence to excess) by a double movement of stimulation followed by restraint. The earliest texts examined here treat royal entertainments in which a trajectory to excess is blocked either by abruptly stopping the entertainment or by a reflux of moral resolution. The latest texts, from the mid-ninth century, transform that double movement of excitement and blockage into a tense absorbtion, in which the poetic speaker has his attention fixed on an image of desire, but can neither advance to reach it nor withdraw. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_1998_num_20_20_1053 |
