Reading East Asian writing : the limits of literary theory / edited by Michel Hockx and Ivo Smits.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hockx, Michel.

Smits, Ivo, 1965-

Series:

RoutledgeCurzon--IIAS Asian studies series.

RoutledgeCurzon--IIAS Asian studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Japanese literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to discussion of a specific country or area, these theories have been criticised for their Western bias.This collection breaks through these barriers, providing an opportunity for scholars of two closely

Contents:

Cover; Reading East Asian Writing; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity, and Lao She; 2 Canon Formation in Japan: Genre, Gender, Popular Culture, and Nationalism; 3 Là, tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté: The Surprises of Applied Structuralism; 4 Kristevan (Mis)understandings: Writing in the Feminine; 5 The Heian Literary System: A Tentative Model; 6 Did the Master Instruct his Followers to Attack Heretics? A Note on Readings of Lunyu 2.1

7 The Power of Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological Approach to Japanese Poetics8 What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture; 9 Places of Mediation: Poets and Salons in Medieval Japan; 10 Theory as Practice: Modern Chinese Literature and Bourdieu; 11 Making Space: Kunikida Doppo and the 'Native Place' Ideal in Meiji Literature; 12 Re/reading' Modern Japanese Literature' as a Critical Project: The Case of Dazai Osamu's Autobiographical Novel Tsugaru

13 Digital Wen: On the Digitization of Letter- and Character-based Systems of InscriptionIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-136-13410-7

1-136-13402-6

0-203-03761-8

OCLC:

874157369