John P. Keenan is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College

• Preface Introduction Reading the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun:Socioliterary Strategies The Intent of the Li-huo lunModem ScholarshipThe Approach of Literary CriticismReader-Response CriticismThe Plot of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lunInterpretation As a Function of an Institutional CommunityThe Argument of the Li-huo lunNotes to IntroductionThe Preface to the Li-huo lun Background and ContextEnglish Translation of Preface: Mou-tzu's Treatise on the Removal of DoubtReader-Response CriticismMou-tzu's Dialogue with His Critics Each of Thirty-Seven Articles Treated in Three Parts:1. English Translation2. Source Codes (Background textual images and ideas)3. Reader-Response Criticism (What the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps)Notes to Articles Bibliography Index

John P. Keenan is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College

• Preface Introduction Reading the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun:Socioliterary Strategies The Intent of the Li-huo lunModem ScholarshipThe Approach of Literary CriticismReader-Response CriticismThe Plot of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lunInterpretation As a Function of an Institutional CommunityThe Argument of the Li-huo lunNotes to IntroductionThe Preface to the Li-huo lun Background and ContextEnglish Translation of Preface: Mou-tzu's Treatise on the Removal of DoubtReader-Response CriticismMou-tzu's Dialogue with His Critics Each of Thirty-Seven Articles Treated in Three Parts:1. English Translation2. Source Codes (Background textual images and ideas)3. Reader-Response Criticism (What the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps)Notes to Articles Bibliography Index

John P. Keenan is Associate Professor of Religion at Middlebury College

• Preface Introduction Reading the Mou-tzu Li-huo lun:Socioliterary Strategies The Intent of the Li-huo lunModem ScholarshipThe Approach of Literary CriticismReader-Response CriticismThe Plot of the Mou-tzu Li-huo lunInterpretation As a Function of an Institutional CommunityThe Argument of the Li-huo lunNotes to IntroductionThe Preface to the Li-huo lun Background and ContextEnglish Translation of Preface: Mou-tzu's Treatise on the Removal of DoubtReader-Response CriticismMou-tzu's Dialogue with His Critics Each of Thirty-Seven Articles Treated in Three Parts:1. English Translation2. Source Codes (Background textual images and ideas)3. Reader-Response Criticism (What the argument accomplishes in each of its progressive steps)Notes to Articles Bibliography Index