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Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn
Eileen J. Cheng
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Description for Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn
Hardcover. This book explores Lu Xuns complex relationship with the past, specifically how his modern creative writings critically engage with the form, style, and content of traditional literature, whether in the form of imitation, adaptation, or parody. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Lu Xun (1881–1936), arguably twentieth-century China’s leading writer, is often depicted as the quintessential representative of May Fourth iconoclastic spirit. Yet his work reflects the ambivalence and contradictions of the larger questions that preoccupied him as a writer and intellectual: How can a culture estranged from its traditions come to terms with its past? How can a culture, severed from its customs and beliefs and alienated from the foreign conventions it attempts to appropriate, conceptualise its own present and future? Challenging conventional depictions, Eileen Cheng demonstrates how Lu Xun’s aesthetic experiments are at once much more traditional and revolutionary than ... Read more
Lu Xun (1881–1936), arguably twentieth-century China’s leading writer, is often depicted as the quintessential representative of May Fourth iconoclastic spirit. Yet his work reflects the ambivalence and contradictions of the larger questions that preoccupied him as a writer and intellectual: How can a culture estranged from its traditions come to terms with its past? How can a culture, severed from its customs and beliefs and alienated from the foreign conventions it attempts to appropriate, conceptualise its own present and future? Challenging conventional depictions, Eileen Cheng demonstrates how Lu Xun’s aesthetic experiments are at once much more traditional and revolutionary than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824835958
SKU
V9780824835958
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About Eileen J. Cheng
Eileen J. Cheng is associate professor of Chinese at Pomona College, USA.| Eileen J. Cheng is associate professor of Chinese at Pomona College, USA.
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