Lily Briscoe S Chinese Eyes

Author : Patricia Laurence
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781611171761

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Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes by Patricia Laurence Pdf

Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. In doing so, she counters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism and literary description. Laurence expands her examination of Bell and Ling's relationship into a study of parallel literary communities—Bloomsbury in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. Underscoring their reciprocal influences in the early part of the twentieth century, Laurence presents conversations among well-known British and Chinese writers, artists, and historians, including Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, G. L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, E. M. Forster, and Xiao Qian. In addition, Laurence's study includes rarely seen photographs of Julian Bell, Ling, and their associates as well as a reproduction of Ling's scroll commemorating moments in the exchange between Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group. While many critics agree that modernism is a movement that crosses national boundaries, literary studies rarely reflect such a view. In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective. In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances—and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies—by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism.

Author : Mary Ann Gillies,Helen Sword,Steven G. Yao
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802091956

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Pacific Rim Modernisms by Mary Ann Gillies,Helen Sword,Steven G. Yao Pdf

Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.

Author : Urmila Seshagiri
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0801448212

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Race and the Modernist Imagination by Urmila Seshagiri Pdf

In addition to her readings of a fascinating array of works---The Picture of Dorian Gray, Heart of Darkness --

Author : Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199700110

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The Hypothetical Mandarin : Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain by Eric Hayot Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Program in Asian Studies Pennsylvania State University Pdf

Why has the West for so long and in so many different ways expressed the idea that the Chinese have a special relationship to cruelty and to physical pain? What can the history of that idea and its expressions teach us about the politics of the West's contemporary relation to China? And what does it tell us about the philosophy of modernity? The Hypothetical Mandarin is, in some sense, a history of the Western imagination. It is also a history of the interactions between Enlightenment philosophy, of globalization, of human rights, and of the idea of the modern. Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), the book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being. Written in an ebullient prose, The Hypothetical Mandarin demonstrates how the network that intertwines China, sympathy, and modernity continues to shape the economic and human experience.

Author : Kristin Czarnecki,Carrie Rohman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780983533900

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Virginia Woolf and the Natural World by Kristin Czarnecki,Carrie Rohman Pdf

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World is a compilation of thirty-one essays presented at the twentieth annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. This volume explores Woolf's complex engagement with the natural world, an engagement that was as political as it was aesthetic. The diversity of topics within this collection-ecofeminism, the nature of time, the nature of the self, nature and sporting, botany, climate, and landscape, just to name a few-fosters a deeper understanding of the nature of nature in Woolf's works. Contributors include Bonnie Kime Scott, Carrie Rohman, Diana Swanson, Elisa Kay Sparks, Beth Rigel Daugherty, Jane Goldman, and Diane Gillespie, among many others from the international community of Woolf scholars.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504083867

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To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Pdf

This landmark work of modernist literature explores the inner lives of a typical English family while vividly exploring the nature of loss and memory. Following her celebrated masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf continues to develop her groundbreaking stream-of-consciousness technique in To the Lighthouse. Every summer, the Ramsey family returns to the Isle of Skye for a tranquil holiday, where the imposing lighthouse seems to promise everlasting constancy. But as their idyllic holiday confronts the realities of World War I, the Ramseys must also face the inescapable nature of change. A profound evocation of marriage, parenthood, aging, and grief, To the Lighthouse is regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Author : Elizabeth Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804759458

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Britain's Chinese Eye by Elizabeth Chang Pdf

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.

Author : David Emil Mungello
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : China
ISBN : 9781442215573

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Western Queers in China by David Emil Mungello Pdf

This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D.E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study traces the lives of two dozen men, many previously unknown to have same-sex desire, who fled to China and in the process influenced perceptions of Chinese culture to this day. This escapism engendered casual sexual encounters, serious friendships, and substantive intellectual rela.

Author : Allison Pease
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107052086

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The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse by Allison Pease Pdf

Written by leading international scholars of Woolf and modernism, The Cambridge Companion to To The Lighthouse will be of interest to students and scholars alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004306042

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Fear and Fantasy in a Global World by Anonim Pdf

Fear and Fantasy in a Global World is a collection of essays which examines the processes, meanings and relations between fear and fantasy in the globalized world, from bold interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives.

Author : Patricia Ondek Laurence
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804721793

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The Reading of Silence by Patricia Ondek Laurence Pdf

This is a study of Virginia Woolf's lifelong preoccupation with silence and the barrier between the sayable and the unsayable. Using a wide range of thinkers from Kierkegaard to Kristeva and Derrida, Laurence demonstrates convincingly that Woolf was the first modern woman novelist to practice silence in her writing and that, in so doing, she created a new language of the mind and changed the metaphor of silence from one of absence or oppression to one of presence and strength. It suggests new directions for Woolf criticism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arts, Chinese
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133497037

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Modern Chinese Literature and Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leo Tak-hung Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317641230

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Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese by Leo Tak-hung Chan Pdf

Translated fiction has largely been under-theorized, if not altogether ignored, in literary studies. Though widely consumed, translated novels are still considered secondary versions of foreign masterpieces. Readers, Reading and Reception of Translated Fiction in Chinese recognizes that translated novels are distinct from non-translated novels, just as they are distinct from the originals from which they are derived, but they are neither secondary nor inferior. They provide different models of reality; they are split apart by two languages, two cultures and two literary systems; and they are characterized by cultural hybridity, double voicing and multiple intertextualities. With the continued popularity of translated fiction, questions related to its reading and reception take on increasing significance. Chan draws on insights from textual and narratological studies to unravel the processes through which readers interact with translated fiction. Moving from individual readings to collective reception, he considers how lay Chinese readers, as a community, 'received' translated British fiction at specific historical moments during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Case studies discussed include translations of stream-of-consciousness novels, fantasy fiction and postmodern works. In addition to lay readers, two further kinds of reader with bilingual facility are examined: the way critics and historians approach translated fiction is investigated from structuralist and poststrcuturalist perspectives. A range of novels by well-known British authors constitute the core of the study, including novels by Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, John Fowles, Helen Fielding and J.K. Rowling.

Author : Anne Witchard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748690978

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British Modernism and Chinoiserie by Anne Witchard Pdf

This volume examines the ways in which an intellectual vogue for a mythic China was a constituent element of British modernism.

Author : Menna van Praag
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101606360

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The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna van Praag Pdf

A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time of need Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she’s never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house’s usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. With nothing left to lose, Alba takes a chance and moves in. She soon discovers that this is no ordinary house. Past residents have included Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Parker, who, after receiving the assistance they needed, hung around to help newcomers—literally, in talking portraits on the wall. As she escapes into this new world, Alba begins a journey that will heal her wounds—and maybe even save her life. Filled with a colorful and unforgettable cast of literary figures, The House at the End of Hope Street is a charming, whimsical novel of hope and feminine wisdom that is sure to appeal to fans of Jasper Fforde and especially Sarah Addison Allen.