Reading East Asian Writing : the Limits of Literary Theory.

Reading East Asian Writing : the Limits of Literary Theory.

This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understandi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hockx, Michel
Other Authors: Smits, Ivo
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Subjects:
Japanese literature.
Japanese literature
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Reading East Asian Writing; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She; 2 Canon Formation in Japan: Genre, Gender, Popular Culture, and Nationalism; 3 Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté: The Surprises of Applied Structuralism; 4 Kristevan (Mis)understandings: Writing in the Feminine; 5 The Heian Literary System: A Tentative Model; 6 Did the Master Instruct his Followers to Attack Heretics? A Note on Readings of Lunyu 2.1.
  • 7 The Power of Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological Approach to Japanese Poetics8 What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture; 9 Places of Mediation: Poets and Salons in Medieval Japan; 10 Theory as Practice: Modern Chinese Literature and Bourdieu; 11 Making Space: Kunikida Doppo and the 'Native Place' Ideal in Meiji Literature; 12 Re/reading' Modern Japanese Literature' as a Critical Project: The Case of Dazai Osamu's Autobiographical Novel Tsugaru.

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