Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity [electronic resource] / by Peter Button.

By: Button, Peter, 1960-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 1.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009Description: xv, 316 pSubject(s): Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Socialist realism in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 895.1/3520912 LOC classification: PL2442 | .B88 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.
Summary: "Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-299) and index.

The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.

"Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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