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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778698903321

Autore

Button Peter <1960->

Titolo

Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity [[electronic resource] /] / by Peter Button

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-40012-6

9786612400124

90-474-2426-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Ideas, history, and modern China, , 1875-9394 ; ; v. 1

Disciplina

895.1/3520912

Soggetti

Chinese fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Socialist realism in literature

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

The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.

Sommario/riassunto

"Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.