Literary remains : death, trauma, and Lu Xun's refusal to mourn /
Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging conventional depict...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2013]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The limits of subjectivity: death, trauma, and the refusal to mourn
- In the name of the father, or the authority of the preface: filiality and the origins of writing
- Vigil before the shrine of the dead: biographers, subjects, and the failures of transmission
- Death by applause: eulogizing women
- The abandoned lover: romance in an age of mechanical reproductions
- The elusion of paradise: wanderers without a home
- Mocking the sages: "gathering vetch"
- A world devoid of enchantment: "mending heaven" and "resurrecting the dead."