LEADER 04859nam 2200709 450 001 9910459730503321 005 20210625000022.0 010 $a3-11-037417-X 010 $a3-11-035187-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110351873 035 $a(CKB)3710000000229172 035 $a(EBL)1586356 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001333613 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11745931 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001333613 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11386346 035 $a(PQKB)11263805 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1586356 035 $a(DE-B1597)282706 035 $a(OCoLC)890071027 035 $a(OCoLC)896872529 035 $a(OCoLC)900716644 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110351873 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1586356 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11010259 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL805802 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000229172 100 $a20150212h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPolyphony embodied $efreedom and fate in Gao Xingjian's writings /$fedited by Michael Lackner and Nikola Chardonnens 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 225 1 $aChinese-Western Discourse ;$vVolume 1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-035188-9 311 0 $a3-11-034642-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgments --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tIntroduction /$rLackner, Michael / Chardonnens, Nikola --$tFreedom and Literature /$rXingjian, Gao --$tGao Xingjian's Transcultural Aesthetics in Fiction, Theater, Art, and Film /$rLee, Mabel --$tThe Aesthete as Revolutionary: Saving Art from Politics /$rMcDonald, John --$tThe Silence of Buddha: Triangulating Gao Xingjian, Brecht, and Beckett /$rTatlow, Antony --$tGao Xingjian's Notion of Freedom /$rZaifu, Liu --$tReading Gao Xingjian's Treatment of Freedom in Soul Mountain and One Man's Bible in the Sartrean Framework /$rYeung, Jessica --$tThe Concept of Freedom in Gao Xingjian's Novel One Man's Bible /$rLiying, Wang --$tSex, Freedom, and Escape in Gao Xingjian's One Man's Bible /$rDutrait, Noël --$tWild Man and the Idea of Freedom /$rFong, Gilbert C. F. --$tToward an Aesthetics of Freedom /$rGang, Lin --$tGao Xingjian Carefree: Of Mountains and Seas and Carefree as a Bird /$rYinde, Zhang --$tTradition and Freedom: The Artistic World of Gao Xingjian and His Play Hades /$rOh, Sookyung --$tMultivocality as Critique of Reality: Fate and Freedom in Gao Xingjian's The Man Who Questions Death /$rRen, Quah Sy --$tBetween Memory and Forgetting: Ten Years after Gao Xingjian's Winning of the Nobel /$rLim, Wah Guan --$tFinding Freedom and Reshaping Fate: An Exile's Disentanglement from Obsession in Gao Xingjian's Novels /$rLi, Lily --$tFate as (Re)Visioning of the Self in Soul Mountain /$rTam, Kwok-kan --$tTrap Revisited: The Man Who Questions Death and the Tragedy of Modern Man /$rChan, Shelby --$tIndex of Works by Gao Xingjian --$tName Index 330 $aLike artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them. 410 0$aChinese-western discourse ;$vVolume 1. 606 $aChinese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiberty in literature 606 $aFate and fatalism in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiberty in literature. 615 0$aFate and fatalism in literature. 676 $a895.13/52 702 $aLackner$b Michael$f1953- 702 $aChardonnens$b Nikola 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459730503321 996 $aPolyphony embodied$92460517 997 $aUNINA