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canon formation
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chinese
Commentarial Tradition
Common Language
comparative poetics
cross-cultural interpretation
Des Chinoises
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East Asian literature studies
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feminist literary criticism
field
genji
Genji Monogatari
Heian Literature
hira
Ise Monogatari
Izumi Shikibu
japanese
Jiu Tangshu
Kunikida Doppo
literary
Literary Field
literary theory in Chinese and Japanese contexts
literature
Mandarin Ducks
Mei Lanfang
MICHEL HOCKX
modern
Modern Chinese Literary
Modern Japanese Literature
monogatari
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Shen Congwen
Shi Qi
structuralist analysis
Wang Yangming
Ye Yi
Yinyuan Zhuan
Zhu Xi
Zhu Yuanzhang
Product details
- ISBN 9781138863491
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Mar 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to discussion of a specific country or area, these theories have been criticised for their Western bias.
This collection breaks through these barriers, providing an opportunity for scholars of two closely related yet often independently studied cultures to present and compare their views on specific theories of literature, to discuss the advantages and shortcomings of those theories, and to consider specific difficulties related to the East-West dimension.
Michel Hockx is Senior Lecturer in modern Chinese literature and language at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has published widely on modern Chinese literature. His most recent monograph is Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China (forthcoming, E J Brill: 2002).
Ivo Smits is Lecturer in Japanese literature at Leiden University. He is author of The Pursuit of Loneliness: Chinese and Japanese Nature Poetry in Medieval Japan (Franz Steiner Verlag: 1995) and the editor of Bridging the Divide: 400 Years The Netherlands-Japan (Teleac/NOT & Hotei Publishing: 2000).
