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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789566103321

Autore

Li Hua <1969->

Titolo

Contemporary Chinese fiction by Su Tong and Yu Hua [[electronic resource] ] : coming of age in troubled times / / by Hua Li

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden [The Netherlands] ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-12092-5

9786613120922

90-04-20313-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Sinica Leidensia, , 0169-9563 ; ; v. 102

Disciplina

895.1/3099283/0904

Soggetti

Chinese fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Bildungsromans - History and criticism

Comparative literature - Chinese and English

Comparative literature - English and Chinese

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Group identity in literature

Youth 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

Preliminary Material / H. LI -- Introduction / H. LI -- Chapter One. Bildungsroman/Chengzhang Xiaoshuo As A Literary Genre / H. LI -- Chapter Two. The Changing Patterns Of The Bildungsroman In Modern Chinese Literature / H. LI -- Chapter Three. Fallen Youth: A Solitary Outcast / H. LI -- Chapter Four. Fallen Youth: A Trembling Loner / H. LI -- Chapter Five. Tragic And Parodistic Bildungsroman / H. LI -- Glossary / H. LI -- Bibliography / H. LI -- Index / H. LI.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explores the coming-of-age fiction of two of the most critically acclaimed and frequently translated contemporary Chinese authors, Yu Hua and Su Tong; it is the first in-depth book-length treatise in English about the contemporary Chinese Bildungsroman . Although various individual contemporary Chinese novelists and individual works of Chinese fiction have previously been discussed under the rubric of the Bildungsroman , none of these efforts has



approached the level of comprehensive and comparative analysis that this book brings to the genre and its social contexts in contemporary China. This book will pique the interests not only of scholars and students of Chinese and comparative literature, but also of historians and social scientists with an interest in the region.