Polyphony Embodied Freedom And Fate In Gao Xingjian S Writings

Author : Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110351873

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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings by Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens Pdf

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

Author : Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 3110351889

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Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings by Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens Pdf

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western modernity. The present volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays on the themes of freedom and fate in the creative works of Gao Xingjian.

Author : Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110374179

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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings by Michael Lackner,Nikola Chardonnens Pdf

Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

Author : Carlos Rojas,Andrea Bachner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199383320

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures by Carlos Rojas,Andrea Bachner Pdf

With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.

Author : Kerry Brown
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614729006

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Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography Volume 4 by Kerry Brown Pdf

The Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (1979-2015) provides a riveting new way to understand twenty-first-century China and a personal look at the changes that have taken place since the Reform and Opening Up era started in 1979. One hundred key individuals from this period were selected by an international group of experts, and the stories were written by more than 70 authors in 14 countries. The authors map the paths taken by these individuals-some rocky, some meandering, some fateful-and in telling their stories give contemporary Chinese history a human face. The editors have included-with the advice of myriad experts around the world-not only the life stories of politicians and government officials, who play a crucial role in the development of the country, but the stories of cultural figures including, film directors, activists, writers, and entrepreneurs from the mainland China, Hong Kong, and also from Taiwan. The "Greater China" that comes through in this volume has diverse ideas and identities. It is often contradictory, sometimes fractious, and always full of creative human complexity. Some of the lives rendered here are heroic. Some are tragic, and many are inspirational. Some figures come in for trenchant criticism, and others are celebrated with a sense of wonder and awe. Like previous volumes of the Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography, this volume includes a range of appendices, including a pronunciation guide, a bibliography, and a timeline of key events.

Author : Letizia Fusini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004423381

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Dionysus on the Other Shore by Letizia Fusini Pdf

In Dionysus on the Other Shore, Letizia Fusini re-examines Gao Xingjian’s post-1987 theatre as a form of tragedy.

Author : Mary Mazzilli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472591616

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Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays by Mary Mazzilli Pdf

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best been understood neither as expressly Chinese nor French, but as transnational. In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic and theatrical trend that is fluid, flexible and encompasses a variety of styles and influences. As such, this innovative interdisciplinary investigation offers fresh insights into contemporary theatre. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis that will help readers to better understand his complex work, and also to see it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek. Among the plays discussed are: The Other Shore, written just before he left China in 1987; Between Life and Death (1991) - compared in detail to Martin Crimp's Attempts on her life; Dialogue and Rebuttal (1992), and its relationship to Beckett's Happy Days; Nocturnal Wanderer (1993), Weekend Quartet (1995), and the latest plays Snow in August (1997), Death Collector (2000) and Ballade Nocturne (2010).

Author : Jianmei Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190238155

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Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature by Jianmei Liu Pdf

This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. The book highlights two central philosophical themes of Zhuangzi: the absolute spiritual freedom and the rejection of absolute and fixed views on right and wrong. It argues that the twentieth-century reinterpretation and appropriation of these two important philosophical themes best testify to the dilemma and inner struggle of modern Chinese intellectuals.

Author : Todd S. Ing
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Albert Lasker Awards
ISBN : 9789814704625

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Nobel and Lasker Laureates of Chinese Descent by Todd S. Ing Pdf

"At the turn of the 20th century, the Boxer Uprising marked the culmination of a violent and tragic chapter in Chinese history. Out of the ashes of this calamity, scholarships funded by Boxer Indemnity and many others fostered some of the greatest minds in the Chinese modern era. This book celebrates notable luminary scholars of Chinese descent, with a special focus on 1 Wolf Prize, 4 Lasker, and 11 Nobel laureates spanning a wide range of disciplines in both literature and science. We visit the struggles of pioneers Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang as the first Chinese Nobel prize recipients for characterizing fundamental laws in elementary-particle physics. Their pioneering works have paved the way for many to follow. We chronicle the careers of more recent recipients, including Mo Yan and his celebration of peasant life in China through the lens of hallucinatory realism. We delve into the lives of these Laureates, witness the obstacles that they overcame, and testify to their lasting contributions to humankind. In recounting the intellectual struggles and triumphs of these pioneers of Chinese heritage, we hope to inspire the next generation of scholars in literature and science worldwide in the hope that they too might become laureates one day"--Publisher's website.

Author : Wah Guan Lim
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501774416

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Denationalizing Identities by Wah Guan Lim Pdf

Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan Lim's study of four important diasporic director-playwrights—Gao Xingjian, Stan Lai Sheng-chuan, Danny Yung Ning Tsun, and Kuo Pao Kun—shows the impact of theater on ideas of "Chineseness" across China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. At the height of the Cold War, the "Bamboo Curtain" divided the "two Chinas" across the Taiwan Strait. Meanwhile, Hong Kong prepared for its handover to the People's Republic of China and Singapore rethought Chinese education. As geopolitical tensions imposed ethno-nationalist identities across the region, these four dramatists wove together local, foreign, and Chinese elements in their art, challenging mainland China's narrative of an inevitable communist outcome. By performing cultural identities alternative to the ones sanctioned by their own states, they debunked notions of a unified Chineseness. Denationalizing Identities highlights the key role theater and performance played in circulating people and ideas across the Chinese-speaking world, well before cross-strait relations began to thaw.

Author : Carlos Rojas,Andrea Bachner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190628147

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures by Carlos Rojas,Andrea Bachner Pdf

With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.

Author : Maghiel van Crevel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004163829

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Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by Maghiel van Crevel Pdf

Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use.

Author : Mathilde Kang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Oriental literature (French)
ISBN : 9048540275

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The Francophonie and the Orient by Mathilde Kang Pdf

Author : Xingjian Gao
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780730491194

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Soul Mountain by Xingjian Gao Pdf

the worldwide bestselling novel by the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature.Soul Mountain is a picaresque novel of immense wisdom and sparse beauty, bursting with knowledge and experience and portraying a culture as vast and fascinating as the history of humankind itself.In China in the early eighties, the book's central character embarks on a cross-country journey in search of the mysterious 'Mountain'. Along the way he collects stories, lovers, spiritual wisdom and undergoes myriad experiences that are sometimes violent, sometimes frightening, sometimes funny, but always enriching. He researches the origins of humankind and Chinese culture, and explores philosophical issues such as truth, knowledge and how oneᱠchildhood affects later life. At the end of the book, he realises that all along what was important was not finding the elusive Soul Mountain, but rather the journey itself. Part love story, part fable, part philosophical treatise and part travel journal, this is one of the most challenging, rewarding and inventive works of fiction since Ulysses.

Author : Philip F. Williams
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789089640925

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Asian Literary Voices by Philip F. Williams Pdf

Philip F. Williams has published nine books in East Asian studies, including The Great Wall of Confinement (UCal, 2004), and has been Professor of Chinese at Massey University and Arizona State University. --