LEADER 04706nam 2200769 450 001 9910813336503321 005 20210429211743.0 010 $a0-231-53857-X 024 7 $a10.7312/wang17046 035 $a(CKB)2670000000591168 035 $a(OCoLC)902415282 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary11012302 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001421353 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12576461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001421353 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11424140 035 $a(PQKB)10548344 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001252277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1866949 035 $a(DE-B1597)458541 035 $a(OCoLC)979739585 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231538572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1866949 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11012302 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL695536 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000591168 100 $a20150205h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe lyrical in epic time $emodern Chinese intellectuals and artists through the 1949 crisis /$fDavid Der-wei Wang ; cover design, Milenda Nan Ok Lee 210 1$aNew York ;$aChichester, England :$cColumbia University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (537 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-64254-0 311 0 $a0-231-17046-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tPrologue --$tIntroduction --$tPart One --$tChapter One. "A History with Feeling" --$tChapter Two. The Three Epiphanies of Shen Congwen --$tChapter Three. Of Dream and Snake --$tChapter Four. A Lyricism of Betrayal --$tPart Two --$tChapter Five The Lyrical in Epic Time --$tChapter Six. The Riddle of the Sphinx --$tChapter Seven. A Spring That Brought Eternal Regret --$tChapter Eight. And History Took a Calligraphic Turn --$tCoda: Toward a Critical Lyricism --$tNotes --$tGlossary of Chinese Characters --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait. The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese-and global-modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time. 606 $aChinese literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zChina 606 $aMusic$zChina$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPainting, Chinese$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCalligraphy, Chinese$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMotion pictures$zChina$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zChina 607 $aChina$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aChinese literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPainting, Chinese$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCalligraphy, Chinese$xHistory 615 0$aMotion pictures$xHistory 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a895.109/0052 700 $aWang$b Dewei$0690156 702 $aLee$b Milenda Nan Ok 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813336503321 996 $aThe lyrical in epic time$93938952 997 $aUNINA