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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2013]
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| 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."


