From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
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- ISBN 9781557535764
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 149 x 226mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2011
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures' traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies.
Yi Zheng teaches literature at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include Civility and Class in Contemporary Chinese Print Media (2010).
