Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity [electronic resource] / by Peter Button.
By: Button, Peter.
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BookSeries: Ideas, history, and modern China: v. 1.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xv, 316 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Socialist realism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 895.1/3520912 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-299) and index.
The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.
"Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
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