Reading Wang Wenxing : : Critical Essays /

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (396 p.)
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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

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