Modern Chinese Literary Thought

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804725594

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Modern Chinese Literary Thought by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

This volume presents a broad range of writings on modern Chinese literature. Of the fifty-five essays included, forty-seven are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition, the editor has provided an extensive general introduction and shorter introductions to the five parts of the book, historical background, a synthesis of current scholarship on modern views of Chinese literature, and an original thesis on the complex formation of Chinese literary modernity. The collection reflects both the mainstream Marxist interpretation of the literary values of modern China and the marginalized views proscribed, at one time or another, by the leftist canon. It offers a full spectrum of modern Chinese perceptions of fundamental literary issues.

Author : Stephen Owen
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674749219

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Readings in Chinese Literary Thought by Stephen Owen Pdf

In this dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Ch'ing dynasty, Stephen Owen provides fundamental texts in the history of Chinese thought on literature and comments on them extensively. Canonical early statements, prefaces, poems on poetry treatises, short essays, letters, technical manuals - all are represented and placed in their historical and cultural context. Besides discussing individual selections in detail, Owen traces the development of motifs, methods of argumentation, and deep concerns in Chinese literary thought and explains how they diverge from Western literary theory. This beautifully designed volume will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature, while its translations and commentaries will open up Chinese literary thought to theorists and scholars of other languages.

Author : Marián Gálik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000583175

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The Genesis of Modern Chinese Literary Criticism (1917–1930) by Marián Gálik Pdf

This book, first published in 1980, is a history of modern Chinese literary criticism between the years 1917 and 1930. It examines its development within the overall frame of reference of Chinese national literature from the beginnings of the Chinese literary revolution in 1917 until the end of the first efforts at a revolutionary proletarian literature in 1930. Chinese literary criticism is also analysed within the framework of world literature, of world literary thought, especially of the impact of the progressive literary criticism.

Author : Merle Goldman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 0674579119

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Modern Chinese Literature in the May Fourth Era by Merle Goldman Pdf

One of the most creative and brilliant episodes in modern Chinese history, the cultural and literary flowering that takes the name of the May Fourth Movement, is the subject of this comprehensive and insightful book. This is the first study of modern Chinese literature that shows how China's Confucian traditions were combined with Western influences to create a literature of new values and consciousness for the Chinese people.

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231541145

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The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the effects of censorship, the representation of the Chinese diaspora, the rise and meaning of Sinophone literature, and the role of different media in the development of literature. Subsequent essays focus on authors, their works, and the schools with which they were aligned, featuring key names, titles, and terms in English and in Chinese characters. Woven throughout are pieces on late Qing fiction, popular entertainment fiction, martial arts fiction, experimental theater, post-Mao avant-garde poetry, post–martial law fiction from Taiwan, contemporary genre fiction from China, and recent Internet literature. The volume includes essays on such authors as Liang Qichao, Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Eileen Chang, Jin Yong, Mo Yan, Wang Anyi, Gao Xingjian, and Yan Lianke. Both a teaching tool and a go-to research companion, this volume is a one-of-a-kind resource for mastering modern literature in the Chinese-speaking world.

Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231538572

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The Lyrical in Epic Time by David Der-wei Wang Pdf

In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait. The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese—and global—modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time.

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0822325977

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Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory by Rey Chow Pdf

An attempt to describe the new boundaries of the field of Chinese studies.

Author : Kang Liu,Xiaobing Tang
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822314169

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Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China by Kang Liu,Xiaobing Tang Pdf

This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern. With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the United States, this volume explores the complexity of representing modernity within the Chinese context. Addressing the problem of finding a proper language for articulating fundamental issues in the historical experience of twentieth-century China, the authors critically re-examine notions of realism, the self/subject, and modernity and draw on perspectives from feminist criticism, ideological analysis, and postmodern theory. Among the many topics explored are subjectivity in Chinese cultural theory, Chinese gender relations, the viability of a Lacanian approach to Chinese identity, the politics of subversion in Chinese reportage, and the ambivalent status of the icon of paternity since Mao. At the same time this book offers a probing look into the transformation that Chinese culture as well as the study of that culture is currently undergoing, it also reconfirms private discourse as an ideal site for an investigation into a real and imaginary, private and collective encounter with history. Contributors. Liu Kang, Xiaobing Tang, Liu Zaifu, Stephen Chan, Lydia H. Liu, Wendy Larson, Theodore Huters, David Wang, Tonglin Lu, Yingjin Zhang, Yuejin Wang, Li Tuo, Leo Ou-fan Lee

Author : Kirk A. Denton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804731284

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The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk A. Denton Pdf

Centered around the figures of Hu Feng, a leftist literary theorist who promoted "subjectivism," and his disciple Lu Ling, known for his psychological fiction, this study explores theoretical and fictional responses to the problematic of self at the heart of the experience of modernity in 20th-century China.

Author : Peter Button
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047424260

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Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity by Peter Button Pdf

Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity.

Author : Bangyuan Qi,Dewei Wang
Publisher : Indiana University Press (Ips)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015050269755

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Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Century by Bangyuan Qi,Dewei Wang Pdf

" . . . an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." — Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949 . . . discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." —Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to depict the enunciative endeavors, ranging from ideological treatises to avant-garde experiments, that inform the polyphonic discourse of Chinese cultural politics; (3) to observe the historical factors that enacted the interplay of literary (post)modernities across the Chinese communities in the Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas.

Author : 孙赛茵
Publisher : 清華大學出版社
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9787302384946

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鲁迅与中国现代文场 by 孙赛茵 Pdf

这是清华大学外文系的孙赛茵老师在剑桥大学圣三一学院的博士论文。理论新，观点犀利，论据坚实。且作者英语水平极好，文字典雅洗练。可以补国内鲁迅研究之不足。

Author : Jin Siyan
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789629967871

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Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature by Jin Siyan Pdf

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of 20th century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. The author surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Beidao, and Mu Dan. The author seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscover subjectivity, which is in no way limited to literature; it also covers areas such as the law, and the expression of the I confronted to an overpowering we.

Author : Rey Chow
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822380160

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Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory by Rey Chow Pdf

These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group of scholars includes twentieth-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; film, art, history, popular culture, and literary and cultural criticism; as well as the geographies of migration and diaspora. One of the volume’s provocative suggestions is that the old model of area studies—an offshoot of U.S. Cold War strategy that found its anchorage in higher education—is no longer feasible for the diverse and multifaceted experiences that are articulated under the rubric of “Chineseness.” As Rey Chow argues in her introduction, the notion of a monolithic Chineseness bound ultimately to mainland China is, in itself, highly problematic because it recognizes neither the material realities of ethnic minorities within China nor those of populations in places such as Tibet, Taiwan, and post–British Hong Kong. Above all, this book demonstrates that, as the terms of a chauvinistic sinocentrism become obsolete, the critical use of theory—particularly by younger China scholars whose enthusiasm for critical theory coincides with changes in China’s political economy in recent years—will enable the emergence of fresh connections and insights that may have been at odds with previous interpretive convention. Originally published as a special issue of the journal boundary 2, this collection includes two new essays and an afterword by Paul Bové that places its arguments in the context of contemporary cultural politics. It will have far-reaching implications for the study of modern China and will be of interest to scholars of theory and culture in general. Contributors. Stanley K. Abe, Ien Ang, Chris Berry, Paul Bové, Sung-cheng Yvonne Chang, Rey Chow, Dorothy Ko, Charles Laughlin, Leung Ping-kwan, Kwai-cheung Lo, Christopher Lupke, David Der-wei Wang, Michelle Yeh

Author : Marián Gálik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015043652323

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Mao Tun and Modern Chinese Literary Criticism by Marián Gálik Pdf