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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463311103321

Autore

Stuckey G. Andrew <1974->

Titolo

Old stories retold [[electronic resource] ] : narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / / G. Andrew Stuckey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010

ISBN

1-283-61463-4

1-4616-3395-8

9786613927088

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

895.1/09112

Soggetti

Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Chinese literature - Taiwan - 20th century - History and criticism

Intertextuality

Electronic books.

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 (p. 187-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.

Sommario/riassunto

Old Stories Retold delves into intertextual resonances cultivated with traditional literature in modern Chinese fiction from both the mainland and Taiwan. These resonances develop alternative historical sensibilities which reveal the effects of modernization on Chinese culture.