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Record Nr.

UNINA9910140816003321

Titolo

Asian literary voices [[electronic resource] ] : from marginal to mainstream / / edited by Philip F. Williams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2010

ISBN

90-485-0819-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (172 p.)

Collana

ICAS publication series. Edited volumes ; ; 12

Altri autori (Persone)

WilliamsPhilip F

Disciplina

809

839.31

Soggetti

Oriental literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Korean and Japanese Portraits of Ideal Lovers; 2. Yamada Bimyo ̄'s "Musashino" and the Development of Early Meiji Historical Fiction; 3. From Atomized to Networked: Rural-to-Urban Migrants in Twentieth-century Chinese Narrative; 4. Sex for Sex's Sake?The "Genital Writings" of the Chinese Bad-Girl Writers; 5. In and Out of Home: Bing Xin Recontextualized; 6. From Enlightenment to Sinology: Early European Suggestions on How to Learn Chinese, 1770-1840

7. Chinese Avant-garde Theater: New Trends in Chinese Experimental Drama near the Close of the Twentieth Century8. Malraux's Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence; 9. Reception, Reappropriation, and Reinvention: Chinese Vernacular Fiction and Elite Women's Reading Practices in Late Choso?n Korea; 10. Some Women Writers and their Works in Classical Sanskrit Literature: A Reinterpretation; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together some of the most exciting recent scholarship on Asian literature and culture, spanning all three mainstream cultures of China, Japan, and Korea, along with India. Ranging from Sanskrit poetry of over a thousand years ago to contemporary Chinese fiction, the contributors combine original fi ndings of interest to specialists with a clear style of writing that makes the volume accessible and appealing to the general reader. A unifying concern of the contributors is to give voice to a wide range of literary



and scholarly fi gures who were important in their time and rem