3%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Sabina Knight
€ 13.99
€ 13.53
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Paperback. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 160 pages, 10 b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 115 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address ... Read more
Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. Embracing traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy as well as poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel, Sabina Knight discusses the philosophical foundations of literary culture as well as literature's power to address ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Very Short Introductions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195392067
SKU
V9780195392067
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-99
About Sabina Knight
Sabina Knight is Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature at Smith College and the author of The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction.
Reviews for Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
an illuminating VSI ... I recommend it to anyone interested in translated fiction in general and China in particular.
ANZ LitLovers
ANZ LitLovers