UID:
almahu_9949702756602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789047442998
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2008
Content:
Much of the previous scholarship on Taiwanese modernist poetry easily falls into ideological arguments. This book participates in the development of an alternative approach to understanding Taiwanese modernist poetry. Dr. Au's approach emphasizes the diversity and intensity of experiences of place and placelessness in the work of five poets: Lomen, Luo Fu, Rong Zi, Yu Guangzhong and Zheng Chouyu. The phenomenon of placelessness is a problem in all modernity and so modern aesthetics is an outgrowth of modern society's sense of placelessness. This book not only shows how place becomes placelessness but also analyses Taiwanese modernist poets' responses to the phenomenon of placelessness. Four kinds of places are examined, namely, the house, the city, homeland and an imagined literary community, in this work. The result is both refreshing and original.
Note:
Preliminary Materials /
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Chapter One. Introduction /
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Chapter Two. Unhomely Houses /
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Chapter Three. Imagining Taipei /
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Chapter Four. Homelands As Shifting Ground /
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Chapter Five. Imagined Literary Community: Language, Memory And Nature /
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Chapter Six. Conclusion /
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Bibliography /
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Index /
Additional Edition:
Modernist aesthetics in Taiwanese poetry since the 1950s ISBN 9789004167070 (alk. paper)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004167072 (alk. paper)
Language:
English
