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261 Index A la recherche du temps perdu, 142 Aesthetics, 2, 87, 155; a Chinese aesthetics of fiction, 99; aesthetic appeal, 105; aesthetic appreciation , 68, 92; aesthetic category, 7, 19; aesthetic emotion, 67; aesthetic explanation, 77; aesthetic ideas, 13; aesthetic illusion , 119; aesthetic inhibition, 79; aesthetic movement, 183; aesthetic pleasure, 70; aesthetic sedimentation, 67; aesthetic sensibility, 7, 98; aesthetic suggestiveness, 121–123, 196; aesthetic tastes, 25; aesthetic turn, 7, 11, 43, 67, 71, 78, 88, 92; aesthetic values, 14, 68 aestheticization, 9, 97, 98, 121 Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, 193 allegory, 22, 41, 59, 72, 85, 105, 123, 138, 193, 203; of simulation, 156; of the human mind, 194; allegorical approach, 59; political, 127; allegorical critique of intentional fallacy, 164; allegorical discussion, 28; allegorical meaning, 142, 151; allegorical names, 141; allegorical theory, 137, 14, 143 Allen, Walter, 126 allusion, 37, 172, 173 ambiguity, 15, 43, 205 American fiction, 179 Ames, Roger, 214 analogy, 5, 92, 99, 130, 134, 146, 147, 151, 196 Anatomy of Criticism, 202 Anderson, Richard, 228n65 Anderson, Sherwood, 211 Animal Farm, 193 anti-genre, 21 anti-discourse, 21 antithesis, 150 aporia, 205 apotheosis, 87, 153 approach: conceptual and formal, 9; historical and content, 9; ontological, epistemological, and aesthetic, 25 archetype, 133, 135; archetypal nature, 60 Aristotle, 13, 21, 37, 47, 48, 50, 74–75, 78, 187, 214; Aristotle’s conception of poetry, 106; Aristotle’s distinction between history and fiction, 48, 54, 83; Aristotelian logic of imitation, 78; Aristotle’s mimetic view of characters in Poetics, 202; Aristotelian theory of mimesis, 201; Aristotelian theory of imitation, 51 art, 3, 14, 51, 52, 70, 153, 216; art form, 7; of fiction, 3; artistic transition, 7; visual, 118; artist’s conscious reconstruction of unconsciously 262 CHINESE THEORIES OF FICTION assembled impressions, 120; open definition of, 68 artistry, 28, 65, 153; signs of, 212; source of, 153 association, 52, 142, 143, 144, 152, 169, 207, 208; sound, 178; visual, 178; associational narrative impetus, 143; associational thinking, 117 Auerbach, Eric, 13, 192, 239n24; notion of the novel as “the representation of an entire human existence which has no issues,” 192 Austen, Jane, 126, 202; cool-headed narration by, 214 Austin, J. L., 74, 169 author, 2, 12, 72, 77, 87, 112, 132, 134, 135, 145, 154, 164, 168, 191, 201, 215; author and his created works, 215; author and his personae, 112; author’s diegetic vision, 167; author-god, 164; authorial comments, 107, 111; authorial intention, 36, 37, 82, 127, 163, 165; authorial intrusion , 7, 111, 119, 203, 21, 214; authorial presence, 216; authorship of the Jin Ping Mei, 109, 127; death of the, 208; selfconscious reference to the, 164 autobiography, 143, 149, 203 avant-gardist, 206 bagu wen [pa-ku] (eight legged) essay, 71, 97 Bai Juyi (772–846), 35 Bai Xingjian (775–826), 8, 58, 104; “Li Wa zhuan” (Story of Miss Li), 58, 59; “Sanmeng ji” (Record of Three Dreams), 60 Bakhtin, M. M., 13, 18, 108, 197, 224n8; “Epics and Novel,” 197 Balzac, Honoré, 169 Ban Gu (32–92), 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 34, 72, 77, 102, 225n19 Barnes, Djuna, 105; Nightwood, 105 Barthes, Roland, 1, 77, 93, 94, 120, 147, 14, 150, 164, 167, 180, 199, 208, 223n3; concept of a text, 147, 150; conception of myth, 120; “death of the author,” 208; description of a text as a network or “woven fabric of signi- fiers,” 199 Baudrillard, John, 156, 157; conception of the hyperreal, 156 being, 92, 93, 188, 220; being in nonbeing, 186, 187, 188; ontological and epistemological, 92, 93; paradox between being and nonbeing, 191; signifying process of, 221; roots of, 221 dissemination, 150 Bell, Clive, 67, 228n62 belles-lettres, 23, 25, 28, 102 Bennett, Arnold, 202 Benveniste, Emile, 161 Bergson, Henri, 120 Bianji, 86 Biji xiaoshuo shi (History of Classical Tales), 223n6 binary opposition, 149, 167; between the ideal world and the world of reality, 167; between the real and the false, 155 biography, 10, 19, 23, 51, 64, 86, 116, 168, 169, 203; personal biographies, 137 Birch, Cyril, 3, 224n10 Bishop, John, 224n7 Bloom, Harold, 133, 234n26 Boccaccio, Giovani, 40 Book of Songs, 54, 102, 109, 198 Booth, Wayne, 216 Borges, Jorge Luis, 15, 118 Bowu ji, 73 Brontë sisters, 8, 202 Buddhism, 32, 44, 159, 169, 189; Indian Buddhism, 32; Buddhist, 32, 195; Buddhist ontology of the world, 189; Buddhist philosophy , 154; parallel between Buddhist tenets and literary theory, 153; Buddhist scriptures, 32; Buddhist tales, 32 Cai Yuanfang (fl. 1730–67), 63 [3.145.131...

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