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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828672703321

Autore

Au Chung-to

Titolo

Modernist aesthetics in Taiwanese poetry since the 1950s / / by Au Chung-to

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2008

ISBN

1-282-39892-X

9786612398926

90-474-4299-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 p.)

Collana

Sinica Leidensia, , 0169-9563 ; ; v. 85

Disciplina

895.1/15209951249

Soggetti

Chinese poetry - Taiwan - History and criticism

Chinese poetry - 20th century - 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 (p. [197]-202) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / C. Au -- Chapter One. Introduction / C. Au -- Chapter Two. Unhomely Houses / C. Au -- Chapter Three. Imagining Taipei / C. Au -- Chapter Four. Homelands As Shifting Ground / C. Au -- Chapter Five. Imagined Literary Community: Language, Memory And Nature / C. Au -- Chapter Six. Conclusion / C. Au -- Bibliography / C. Au -- Index / C. Au.

Sommario/riassunto

Mucr. Au’s apph of the previous scholarship on Taiwanese modernist poetry easily falls into ideological arguments. This book participates in the development of an alternative approach to understanding Taiwanese modernist poetry. Droach emphasizes the diversity and intensity of experiences of place and placelessness in the work of five poets: Lomen, Luo Fu, Rong Zi, Yu Guangzhong and Zheng Chouyu. The phenomenon of placelessness is a problem in all modernity and so modern aesthetics is an outgrowth of modern society’s sense of placelessness. This book not only shows how place becomes placelessness but also analyses Taiwanese modernist poets’ responses to the phenomenon of placelessness. Four kinds of places are examined, namely, the house, the city, homeland and an imagined literary community, in this work. The result is both refreshing and original.