Old Stories Retold - Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

Informationen zum Autor G. Andrew Stuckey is assistant professor of Asian languages and civilizations at University of Colorado, Boulder. Klappentext Old Stories Retold delves into intertextual resonances cultivated with traditional literature in modern Chinese fiction from both the mainland and Taiwan. These resonances develop alternative historical sensibilities which reveal the effects of modernization on Chinese culture. Zusammenfassung Old Stories Retold delves into intertextual resonances cultivated with traditional literature in modern Chinese fiction from both the mainland and Taiwan. These resonances develop alternative historical sensibilities which reveal the effects of modernization on Chinese culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 1 Introduction: History, Memory, and Phantasmal Pasts Part 2 Part I Parody: Traditional Narrative Revamped Chapter 3 2 Tradition Redux: Parody and Pathology Chapter 4 3 Return to the Primitive: De-Civilized Origins in Han Shaogong's Fiction Chapter 5 4 Interlude: The Maoist (Anti)Tradition and the Nationalist (Neo)Tradition Part 6 Part II Citation: Strategies of Intertextual Connection Chapter 7 5 The Lyrical and the Local: Shen Congwen, Roots, and Temporality in the Lyrical Tradition Chapter 8 6 Tradition in Exile: Allusion and Quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei People Chapter 9 7 Back to the Future: Temporality and Cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of Everlasting Sorrow Chapter 10 8 Globalized Traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The Ancient Capital Chapter 11 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Andrew G Stuckey, Andrew G. Stuckey, G. Stuckey, G. Andrew Stuckey
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2010
• EAN: 9780739123621
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2362-1
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Central Asia, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / General, Regional Studies, Asian History, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General