Unexpected Affinities - Reading Across Cultures

Informationen zum Autor By Zhang Longxi Klappentext 'Zhang's work admirably succeeds through a judicious selection and exploration of Chinese and Western literary texts in exploding the fallacy that China and the West are not culturally comparable. Unexpected Affinities should become a touchstone of cross-cultural understanding and communication for decades to come.'-Richard John Lynn Zusammenfassung East-West comparative literature is a field of study that has seen tremendous growth in recent years. In this pioneering study! renowned scholar Zhang Longxi offers a much-needed reappraisal of the thematic and conceptual similarities that unite literary and cultural traditions in the East and West.

Product details

• Authors: Zhang Longxi, Zhang Longxi
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2007
• EAN: 9780802092779
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9277-9
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Alexander Lectures; Alexander Lectures
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies