Chinese Aesthetics and Literature

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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• Assisted by: Corinne H. Dale (Editor), Roger T. Ames (Editor), Peter D. Hershock (Editor), Corinne H Dale (Editor), Dale Corinne H. (Editor)
• Authors: Corinne H. (EDT) Dale
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.03.2004
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures
• EAN: 9780791460214
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6021-4
• Pages: 320
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 22.2 x 1.9 cm
• Series: Suny Asian Studies Development; SUNY series in Asian Studies Development
• Subjects: China, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Philosophie Ästhetik, Literature: history and criticism