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edocfu_9958351966702883
Format:
1 online resource(496 p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2015. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780231538572
Content:
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways. Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait.The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese--and global--modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Prologue --
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Introduction: Inventing the "Lyrical Tradition" --
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Part One --
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Chapter One. "A History with Feeling" --
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Chapter Two. The Three Epiphanies of Shen Congwen --
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Chapter Three. Of Dream and Snake: He Qifang, Feng Zhi, and Born-Again Lyricism --
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Chapter Four. A Lyricism of Betrayal: The Enigma of Hu Lancheng --
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Part Two --
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Chapter Five The Lyrical in Epic Time: The Music and Poetry of Jiang Wenye --
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Chapter Six. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Lin Fengmian and the Polemics of Realism in Modern Chinese Painting --
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Chapter Seven. A Spring That Brought Eternal Regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Poetics of Screening China --
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Chapter Eight. And History Took a Calligraphic Turn: Tai Jingnong and the Art of Writing --
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Coda: Toward a Critical Lyricism --
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Notes --
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Glossary of Chinese Characters --
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Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/wang17046
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