Description: Further DetailsTitle: China in a Polycentric WorldCondition: NewSubtitle: Essays in Chinese Comparative LiteratureISBN-10: 0804731861EAN: 9780804731867ISBN: 9780804731867Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/01/1999Description: This collection provides a critical reexamination of the development and current status of comparative literature studies that engage the literary practices of both China and the West. In so doing, it attempts to refashion literary methodologies and cultural theories in Chinese studies and reread several noncanonical texts in ways that cut across disciplines, genders, and modernities. Eschewing conventional taxonomies such as the study of literary influences and parallels, this volume shifts the emphasis from Chinese-Western comparativism to a critical rereading of Chinese or China-related texts using a variety of new critical approaches. Essays that draw on literary history, comparative poetics, modernist aesthetics, feminist studies, gender theory, and postcolonial discourse exemplify how multifaceted approaches can enrich our understanding of this field. The essays are grouped in three parts: studies of disciplines, institutions, and canon formation; gender, sexuality, and the body; and technology, modernity, and aesthetics. They cover a range of subjects, including the challenge of East-West comparative literature, the impact of literary theory on Sinological research, canon formation in traditional Chinese poetry, gender and sexuality in Ming drama, contemporary Chinese fiction and television drama, the problem of translation, the influence of science fiction, and the “cult of poetry” in post-Mao China. The introductory chapter traces the rise of the Chinese school of comparative literature and addresses the issues facing Western scholars of Chinese-Western comparative literature. A concluding chapter summarizes recent remappings of the geocultural world and outlines future possibilities for comparative literature.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 635gContributor: Yingjin Zhang (Edited by)Author: Yingjin ZhangGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Literary CriticismType: TextbookRelease Year: 1999 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: China in a Polycentric World
Title: China in a Polycentric World
Subtitle: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature
ISBN-10: 0804731861
EAN: 9780804731867
ISBN: 9780804731867
Release Date: 02/01/1999
Release Year: 1999
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Yingjin Zhang (Edited by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: China in a Polycentric World : Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Asian / Chinese, Comparative Literature, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science
Author: Yingjin Zhang
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
