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UNINA9910563096103321 |
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Autore |
Handler-Spitz Rebecca |
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age : Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity / / Rivi Handler-Spitz |
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Seattle, [Washington] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Washington Press, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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HISTORY / Asia / China |
Sociology - Philosophy |
Political science - Philosophy |
Culture - Philosophy |
Critical theory |
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology - General |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Regional Studies |
SOCIAL SCIENCE - Anthropology - General |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Transparent language: origin myths and early modern aspirations of recovery -- The rhetoric of bluff: paradox, irony, and self-contradiction -- Sartorial signs and Li Zhi's paradoxical appearance -- Money and Li Zhi's economies of rhetoric -- Dubious books and definitive editions -- Provoking or persuading readers? Li Zhi and the incitement of critical judgment. |
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally |
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distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century. |
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