Download or read book Narrative Perspective and Irony in Selected Chinese and American Fiction written by Ban Wang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Narrative Perspective and Irony in Selected Chinese and American Fiction written by Ban Wang and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study reconsiders irony by blending classical and contemporary critical notions. It revamps the notions of authorial perspective, plot, emotional effect and other generic features of fiction by incorporating socio-historical analysis of practice, ideology and discourse. In discussing Chinese texts, it shows how narrative structure breaks down and authoritative dogma and myth fall apart under a critical irony, shifting narrative stances and multi-voiced language.
Download or read book The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-Hua Ying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature written by Li-hua Ying and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the rest of the world. As it has been challenged and enriched by external influences, it has contributed to the wealth of literary culture of the entire world. In terms of themes and styles, modern Chinese literature is rich and varied; from the revolutionary to the pastoral, from romanticism to feminism, from modernism to post-modernism, critical realism, psychological realism, socialist realism, and magical realism. Indeed, it encompasses a full range of ideological and aesthetic concerns. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Download or read book The Chinese Postmodern written by Xiaobin Yang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful look into contemporary Chinese avant-garde fiction and the problem of Chinese postmodernity
Download or read book Chinese Literature written by James L. Claren and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese literature, one of the world's oldest and richest, and consisting originally of poetry and later of drama and fiction, may be divided into three major historical periods that roughly correspond to those of Western literary history: the classical period, from the 6th century BC to the 2nd century AD; the medieval period, from the third century to the late 12th century; and the modern period, from the 13th century to the present. This book presents an overview of Chinese literature as well as a comprehensive bibliography, primarily of English language sources, accessed by subject, author and title indexes.
Download or read book Reading the Gothic in Margaret Atwood s Novels written by Colette Tennant and published by Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study contains a reading of Margaret Atwood's works, such as The Edible Woman, Survival, Lady Oracle, Bluebeard's Egg, and The Handmaid's Tale, through both a Gothic lens and a feminist perspective.
Download or read book Fiction and Human Rights Discourse in China written by Sha Li and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Fiction and Human Rights Discourse in China: 1897-1927" by Sha, Li, 李莎, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Late Qing (清) was a time of profound transformation in China. From 1897, political, economic and cultural changes began to intensify, and a human rights discourse gradually made its appearance. Literature profoundly changed as well. Fiction, which had been largely excluded from orthodox literature, started to acquire a prominent status. This thesis investigates the engagement of modern Chinese fiction with the human rights discourse from 1897 to 1927. It argues that modern Chinese fiction added momentum to the human rights discourse by presenting an individual-based perception of life and by disseminating human rights concepts. Fiction also provided an important critique of the human rights discourse by exposing the problems, limitations and dilemmas of human rights in the Chinese society. In the introduction, I provide a historical overview of the human rights discourse and the rise of modern fiction. Each chapter then focuses on one literary text and one specific right, and establishes a dialogue between them. In Chapter 1, I discuss the reception of the French novel The Lady of the Camellias in relation to the right to freedom of marriage. This novel depicts the destruction of love due to the interference of family authority. I discuss how its techniques of first-person narration, psychological depictions and epistolarity reinforced the novel's effect in evoking readers' empathy and sympathy towards people who lacked the freedom to marry, and therefore contributed to the social recognition of freedom of marriage. Chapter 2 examines Lu Xun's story Regret for the Past in relation to the women's rights discourse. The story is written as a man's confession about his responsibility for the destruction of his woman after their pursuit of freedom of marriage. I show that through the unreliable narrator, the use of silence and the realist depictions of social environment, the narrative questions the social discourse of women's rights by revealing the underlying patriarchal consciousness and demonstrating its destructive effects. In Chapter 3, I discuss Lu Xun's novella, The True Story of Ah Q, which tells the story of the life, the unjust trial and the execution of a peasant named Ah Q, in relation to the consciousness of the right to life. I argue that through the techniques of irony, realism, symbolic realism and the shift in narrative perspective, this story reflects the neglect of the value of life in the Chinese society and raises the readers' awareness of these facts which would lead to self-introspection and the quest for change. Overall, with the use of vernacular language, the thematic engagement with human rights issues, and the deployment of techniques like realism and first-person narration, modern Chinese fiction disseminated ideas about human rights to a wider audience and provoked readers to think beyond the prevailing normative framework to imagine an order more compatible with the rising individuality. Fiction's focus on the conditions of everyday human existence also brought about a higher awareness of the inner contradictions within the human rights discourse itself. Subjects: Human rights - China - History - 20th century Human rights in literature Human rights - China - History - 19th century
Download or read book Recalling Fiction s Cultural Context Early Gothic and Utopian Romance written by Edward W. R. Pitcher and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study locates texts in their relevant temporal and cultural periods to disclose levels of meaning which have been lost to present readers. For the 18th century, it examines not only little known genres such as the Gothic Fragment and the Utopian Satire, but also demonstrates that contemporary writers satirized the first and gothicized the second. Pitcher everywhere brings fresh insights and knowledge to illuminate obscure allusions in difficult texts.
Download or read book Comparative Readings of Poems Portraying Symbolic Images of Creative Genius written by Carlos Ceia and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. Dr. Ceia's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. This cluster of comparative essays opens up new critical and cultural vistas, as much for the English-speaking reader as the Portuguese scholar. The author's foreword sets out with absolute clarity the objectives and scope of his study, in which he will examine the way that poetic imagination is treated by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, arguably Portugal's greatest living poet, as well as by other major writers of the Western and Eastern traditions. In chapter one, basing himself on the theories of Freud and Jung, and taking his examples from a wide-ranging if not eclectic selection of writers (Ted Hughes, Robert Graves and Seamus Heaney among others), Dr Ceia breaks new ground in his quest to explore the ways in which his subjects h
Download or read book An Introduction to Selected Afro Latino Writers written by Margaret Lindsay Morris and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief monograph discusses the works of ten writers from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Panama, Brazil, Uruguay, and Ecuador. Their work is quoted extensively, in both Spanish and English. The book discusses the major themes of their work, and meditates on issues of identity--specifically, the role of Black people in Latino culture. Morris teaches at Smith College. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book A Comparative Study of Longinus and Al Jurjani written by Adnan K. Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consolidating and expanding arguments and conclusions he has made in two articles in English and a book in Arabic, Abdulla investigates the similarities in the ideas and critical criteria of two the important critics. Longinus wrote Peri Hupsous (On the Sublime) in the first or third century AD. Al-Qadi al Jurjani wrote Al-Wasata bayna al-Mutanabbi
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia written by Tina Burrett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today. Mapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the region’s traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asia’s contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this volume examines the silencing and distortion of traumatic pasts and sustained efforts to interrogate denial and impunity in the search for accountability. Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam), this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Trauma and Memory Studies, Asian Studies and Contemporary Asian History more broadly.
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Download or read book Representations of China in Latin American Literature 1987 2016 written by Maria Montt Strabucchi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM. Representations of China in Latin American Literature (1987-2016) analyses contemporary Latin American novels in which China is the main theme. Using ‘China’ as a multidimensional term, it explores how the novels both highlight and undermine assumptions about China that have shaped Latin America’s understanding of ‘China’ and shows ‘China’ to be a kind of literary/imaginary ‘third’ term which reframes Latin American discourses of alterity. On one level, it argues that these texts play with the way that ‘China’ stands in as a wandering signifier and as a metonym for Asia, a gesture that essentialises it as an unchanging other. On another level, it argues that the novels’ employment of ‘China’ resists essentialist constructions of identity. ‘China’ is thus shown to be serving as a concept which allows for criticism of the construction of fetishized otherness and of the exclusion inherent in essentialist discourses of identity. The book presents and analyses the depiction of an imaginary of China which is arguably performative, but which discloses the tropes and themes which may be both established and subverted, in the novels. Chapter One examines the way in which ‘China’ is represented and constructed in Latin American novels where this country is a setting for their stories. The novels studied in Chapter Two are linked to the presence of Chinese communities in Latin America. The final chapter examines novels whose main theme is travel to contemporary China. Ultimately, in the novels studied in this book ‘China’ serves as a concept through which essentialist notions of identity are critiqued.
Download or read book Asian American Short Story Writers written by Guiyou Huang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian America has produced numerous short-story writers in the 20th century. Some emerged after World War II, yet most of these writers have flourished since 1980. The first reference of its kind, this volume includes alphabetically arranged entries for 49 nationally and internationally acclaimed Asian American writers of short fiction. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. Writers include Frank Chin, Sui Sin Far, Shirely Geok-lin Lim, Toshio Mori, and Bharati Mukherjee. An introductory essay provides a close examination of the Asian American short story, and the volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
