"Yo, el supremo weaves a plethora of formats into a single work: history, novel, sociological essay, moral philosophy, biographical novel, revolutionary pamphlet, testimonial documentary, poetic prose, autobiographic confession, ideological debate over literary limits, and linguistic treatise on the limits of verbal expression".
Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998), hasled as twentieth-century China's "foremost man of letters," is best known for his novel, Fortress Besieged, and his groundbreaking study of the Chinese literary canon, Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters.
Exclusively concerned with literary criticism, it limits itself to four problems: the 'self-sufficiency' of a literary text, the nature of literary interpretation, judging literary texts, and bad poetry.
His own literary work was limited to two novels, some short stories, and a few poems.
Until 1984 artistic and literary expressions were limited largely to African themes by the single political party and its leader.
Bananas may be widely grown and distributed in India, but their appeal as a literary metaphor is limited.
At the same time, literary awards, previously limited to Western writers, were bestowed on Russian writers as well.
For all its patiently researched, previously unpublished and scrupulously documented detail, its field of vision is myopic, its psychological insights few and its literary interest strictly limited.
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But are we suggesting that life between the sheets should really be off limits for literary fiction?
I argue that Plato is more serious here than is usually supposed, and that the passage gives his best account of uses and limits of literary criticism.
