Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China - From Dreamscapes to Theatricality

Zusatztext Provocative and ambitious. Informationen zum Autor Ling Hon Lam is associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how the emotion-realm underwent significant transformations from the dreamscape to theatricality in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China! this book is a major rethinking of key terms in Chinese culture. Zusammenfassung Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of emotions in Chinese literature centered on the idea of emotion as space. Tracing how the emotion-realm underwent significant transformations from the dreamscape to theatricality in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century China, this book is a major rethinking of key terms in Chinese culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prologue: Weather and Landscape 1. Winds! Dreams! Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion-Realms 2. The Heart Beside Itself: A Genealogy of Morals 3. What Is Wrong with The Wrong Career?: A Genealogy of Playgrounds 4. "Not Even Close to Emotion": A Genealogy of Knowledge 5. Time-Space Is Emotion Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: Ling Hon Lam
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780231187947
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18794-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 16th Century, Psychology: emotions, Chinese, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Literary Criticism, Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600