Telling Details - Chinese Fiction, World Literature

This book intensifies the dialogue between Chinese fiction and world literature by focusing on a common literary idiom, the detail.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction
Part One Detail and Difference
Part Two Fiction of Details
1. In the Realm of the Senses: Looking into Jin Ping Mei
2. Seeing is Remembering: Zhang Dai's Rhapsodic Texts and Modern Chinese Lyrical Fiction
3. Silent Strangers and Strange Silence: The Edge and the Center of The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
4. Fragments of Time, Fiction of Details: Eileen Chang, Late Style, and World Literature
5. From Border Town to the Frontier of the Mind: Shen Congwen's Passage to the World
6. Jia Pingwa's Mountains and Seas: "Untranslatable" Fiction as World Literature
Afterword

About the author

Jiwei Xiao is Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures (Chinese) at Fairfield University. She is a scholar of comparative literature and Chinese cinema. Her wide-ranging publications have appeared in New Left Review, New York Review of Books, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, MCLC, and Journal of Contemporary China. Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature is her first book.

Summary

This book intensifies the dialogue between Chinese fiction and world literature by focusing on a common literary idiom, the detail.

Product details

• Authors: Jiwei Xiao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780367608057
• ISBN: 978-0-367-60805-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism