Reading Wang Wenxing : : Critical Essays / / ed. by Shu-ning Sciban, Ihor Pidhainy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Cai, Wei,; Chang, Sung-sheng Yvonne,; Chen, Jeannette Chu-yun,; Dolling, Susan,; Edwards, Fred,; Hung, San-hui,; Jeng, Hengsyung,; Marchand, Sandrine,; Pidhainy, Ihor,; Sciban, Shu-ning,; Shan, Te-hsing,; Sterk, Darryl,; Yang, Jane Parish,; Yip, Wai-lim,
• HerausgeberIn: Pidhainy, Ihor,; Sciban, Shu-ning,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (396 p.)

The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover topics such as Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translating Wang's works into Western languages. Original contributions by Wang Wenxing illuminates his own writing through a discussion of his way of reading, and a biographical essay by Ch'en Chu-yun, his wife, who shares with the reader moments in their private life and the writing habits of her husband. In addition, this manuscript appends outlines of Wang's novels and bibliographies that are valuable to both students and scholars in their studies of Wang Wenxing's writing in particular as well as to the understanding of Taiwanese and Chinese literatures in general.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Author’s Preface: “Reading and Writing” -- Editors’ Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Essays -- Social and Cultural Critique -- 1 Wang Wenxing and Lu Xun: High-Culture Quest, Enlightenment Rationality, and the Modernist Duality -- 2 Archetypes in Wang Wenxing’s Early Fiction: Insecure Intellectuals and Dangerous Women -- 3 Screwed by Fate? The Prostitute and the Critique of Liberalism in Backed Against the Sea -- 4 Leaving Home: Foreshadowing, Echo, and Sideshadowing in Wang Wenxing’s Jia bian -- Questions of Style -- 5 Wang Wenxing: Novelist as Lyric Sculptor -- 6 Family Catastrophe and Its Connection with Traditional Chinese Literature -- 7 The Use of Liheci in Family Catastrophe -- 8 Harmony, Counterpoint, and Variation in Backed Against the Sea -- 9 The Stream-of- Consciousness Technique in Wang Wenxing’s Fiction -- Reflections on Translation -- 10 The Poetics of Rhythm in Wang Wenxing’s Novels -- 11 Translating and Editing Wang Wenxing -- 12 Reflections on Translating Jia bian -- Reflections on Wang Wenxing’s Life -- 13 A Quiet and Simple Life -- 14 Wang Wenxing on Wang Wenxing -- II Appendices -- A Outlines of the Novels -- 15 Tentative Outline of Family Catastrophe -- 16 Tentative Outline of Backed Against the Sea, Vol. 1 -- 17 Tentative Outline of Backed Against the Sea, Vol. 2 -- B Bibliographies -- 18 Bibliography I -- 19 Bibliography II -- 20 Bibliography III -- About the Contributors -- CORNELL EAST ASIA SERIES