Old stories retold : narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / / G. Andrew Stuckey

• Autore: Stuckey G. Andrew <1974->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (212 p.)
• Disciplina: 895.1/09112; 895.109112
• Soggetto topico: Chinese literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Chinese literature - Taiwan - 20th century - History and criticism; Intertextuality
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.
• Sommario/riassunto: Old Stories Retold delves into intertextual resonances cultivated with traditional literature in modern Chinese fiction from both the mainland and Taiwan. These resonances develop alternative historical sensibilities which reveal the effects of modernization on Chinese culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Old stories retold
• ISBN: 1-283-61463-4; 1-4616-3395-8; 9786613927088
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827674003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II