Search Results for: Chinese Lyricism
The Poetics of Repetition in English and Chinese Lyric Poetry
Author: Cecile Chu-chin Sun
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226780207
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 301
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Pages: 304
Pages: 304
For more than half a century, Chinese-Western comparative literature has been recognized as a formal academic discipline, but critics and scholars in the field have done little to develop a viable, common basis for comparison between these disparate literatures. In this pioneering book, Cecile Chu-chin Sun establishes repetition as the
Language: en
Pages: 496
Pages: 496
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention
Language: en
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.
Language: en
Pages: 277
Pages: 277
This book traces the transformation of traditional Chinese theatre’s (xiqu) aesthetics during its encounters with Western drama and theatrical forms in both mainland China and Taiwan since 1978. Through analyzing both the text and performances of eight adapted plays from William Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, this book elaborates
Language: en
Pages: 1108
Pages: 1108
"A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese