Old stories retold : narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / G. Andrew Stuckey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--Taiwan--20th century--History and criticism.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Old Stories Retold delves into intertextual resonances cultivated with traditional literature in modern Chinese fiction from both the mainland and Taiwan. These resonances develop alternative historical sensibilities which reveal the effects of modernization on Chinese culture.

Contents:

Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts

Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped

Tradition redux: parody and pathology

Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction

Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition

Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection

The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition

Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people

Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow

Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-197) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-32493-5

1-283-61463-4

1-4616-3395-8

9786613927088

OCLC:

855502488