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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Da, Nan Z. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Sujets:
1800-1899
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Chinese influences.
Chinese literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Chinese literature > American influences.
Culture in literature.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > Influence chinoise.
Littérature chinoise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature chinoise > Influence américaine.
Culture dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature
American literature > Chinese influences
Chinese literature
Culture in literature
International relations
United States > Relations > China.
China > Relations > United States.
China
United States
Electronic books.
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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