From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature

Informationen zum Autor Yi Zheng teaches literature at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include Civility and Class in Contemporary Chinese Print Media (2010). Klappentext This is a study of the transformation of the aesthetics of the sublime from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. It sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. Zusammenfassung A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China.

Product details

• Authors: Yi Zheng
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2011
• EAN: 9781557535764
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-576-4
• No. of pages: 148
• Series: Comparative Cultural Studies; Comparative Cultural Studies Series; Comparative Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day