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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Cheng, Eileen, 1969-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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."