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Informationen zum Autor Michel Hockx is Senior Lecturer in modern Chinese literature and language at the School of Oriental and African Studies! University of London. He has published widely on modern Chinese literature. His most recent monograph is Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China (forthcoming! E J Brill: 2002).Ivo Smits is Lecturer in Japanese literature at Leiden University. He is author of The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry in Medieval Japan (Franz Steiner Verlag: 1995) and the editor of Bridging the Divide: 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan (Teleac/NOT & Hotei Publishing: 2000). Zusammenfassung Scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature present and compare their views on specific theories of literature, discuss their advantages and shortcomings, and consider specific difficulties related to the East-West dimension. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1.Rey Chow Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity and Lao She2. Haruo Shirane Canon Formation in Japan: Genre, Gender, Population Culture and Nationalism3. Haun Saussy Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté: The Surprises of Applied Structuralism4. Hilary Chung Kristeven (Mis)understandings: Writing in the Feminine5. Rein Raud The Heian Literary System: A Tentative Model6. Bernhard Fuehrer Did the Master Instruct his Followers to Attack Heretics? A Note on Readings of Lunyu 2.17. Michel Viellard-Baron The Power of Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological Approach to Japanese Poetics8. Daria Berg What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture9. Ivo Smits Places of Meditation: Poets and Salons in Medieval Japan
