Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
|
Buy Now
Modern Chinese Literary Thought - Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (Paperback)
Loot Price: R1,316
Discovery Miles 13 160
You Save: R148
(10%)
|
|
Modern Chinese Literary Thought - Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (Paperback)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from
the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the
55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time,
including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition to the selections
themselves, the author has provided, in 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. In the author's
view, literary discourses were actively reshaped by Chinese writes
and critics as responses to deep-set cultural problematics and the
socio-historical imperative of the times. The selection of the
essays reflects both the mainstream Marxists interpretation of the
literary values of modern China and the marginalized views
proscribed, at one time or another, by the leftist canon. With both
the canonical and the marginal, this collection offers a full
spectrum of modern Chinese perceptions of fundamental literary
issues: the nature of the creative act; the relationship between
the literary text and reality; the moral, social, and political
role of literature; and the filiation of language, literary form,
and content. In presenting the Western reading with a Chinese
discourse (in the more traditional sense of the term) about
literature, the editor attempts to construct a cultural context for
the production of texts in modern Chinese literature. Why did
modern Chinese writers write? What goals did they have? How did
they think about literature and its relation to its audience and
the world? To read the response to these questions is to deepen our
understanding of the experience of modernity that lies at the root
of works of modern Chinese literature. The selections were
translated by 33 leading scholars in the field of modern Chinese
literature.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.