Chinese Aesthetics and Literature - A Reader

Informationen zum Autor Corinne H. Dale is Professor of English at Belmont University and the coeditor (with J. H. E. Paine) of Women on the Edge: Ethnicity and Gender in Short Stories by American Women . Klappentext This comprehensive introduction to Chinese aesthetics and literature includes the major modern genres of poetry! fiction! and drama. Featuring the work of renowned scholars in Chinese studies! the book provides an historical survey of Chinese literature and explains its philosophical and historical underpinnings in Daolst! Buddhist! and Confucian thought. The traditions of lyric poetryi fiction! and theater are presented as cultural practices. Modern responses to the political and social crises of twentieth-century China and on the avant-garde experimental literature of twenty-first century China are also examined.

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• Authors: Corinne H. Dale, Corinne H. (EDT) Dale
• Assisted by: Corinne H Dale (Editor), Corinne H. Dale (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2004
• EAN: 9780791460221
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6022-1
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Suny Series in Asian Studies D; Suny Series in Asian Studies D; Suny Asian Studies Development
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures