From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature (Paperback)

This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures' traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies.

General

Imprint:	Purdue University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Comparative Cultural Studies
Release date:	2011
First published:	2011
Authors:	Yi Zheng
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	148
ISBN-13:	978-1-55753-576-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-55753-576-0
Barcode:	9781557535764

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!