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From Burke and Wordsworth to the modern sublime in Chinese literature /

This volume presents 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 distinc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zheng, Yi, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Comparative cultural studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Envisioning a culture of the sublime aesthetic
  • The imperative of the romantic aesthetic and Burke's inquiry into the sublime
  • Wordsworth's poetic prelude to modern history
  • The construction of the sublime as an aesthetic movement across time and place
  • Guo Moruo and the reformation of modern Chinese poetry
  • Rewriting Qu Yuan and towards a sublime denouement
  • Conclusion.