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Intransitive encounter : Sino-U.S. literatures and the limits of exchange /

"In Intransitive Encounter, Nan Da argues that the transnational readings of literary and cultural exchanges often read too much into their significance or mistake the nature of that interaction. The push to characterize these exchanges as developing a cosmopolitanism or producing elements of c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Da, Nan Z. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Intransitivity
  • Indifference in the open: squandering Washington Irving
  • Extreme reformality: burning bridges with Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Incommunicative exchange: Yung Wing's impersonal schemes
  • The things things do not have to say: Longfellow to Dong Xun
  • Open books: Qiu Jin's feminist reading time
  • Harmless exaggeration: Edith Eaton's tweaks and glitches
  • Epilogue: untracking encounter
  • Appendix 1. A note on Chinese language appearances in the book
  • Appendix 2. Lexicon
  • Appendix 3. Historical movements, treaties, organizations, institutions
  • Appendix 4. List of Chinese book, essay, and magazine titles
  • Appendix 5. List of Chinese names.