The poetics of grief and melancholy in East-West conflicts and reconciliations / Chi Sum Garfield Lau, Kelly Kar Yue Chan, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garfield Lau, Chi Sum, editor.

Chan, Kelly Kar Yue, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Grief in literature.

Melancholy in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, 2024.

Contents:

Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts

Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: "The Heartbroken Poetry'

Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: "Aiqing xiaoshuo" in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture

Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies

Chapter 4

Translating China for the Gazing eyes " A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin

Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective

Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She's Mr Ma and Son

Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair

Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng's Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang's The Farewell

Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses

Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens

Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave

Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 19, 2024).

References -- 5 Translating China for the Gazing Eyes-A Case Study of the Battle at Lake Changjin -- 5.1 History of Shame and the Urge to Become the West's Equal -- 5.2 To-Be-Looked-at-ness and Intersemiotic Translation Models -- 5.3 System of IST Models and Transmedial Entanglement -- 5.3.1 Level 1-Cultural Models -- 5.3.2 Level 2-Medial Models -- 5.3.3 Transcultural and Transmedial Entanglement -- 5.4 Case Study-the Battle at Lake Changjin -- 5.4.1 Model 1-Grand Mise-en-Scene -- 5.4.2 Model 2-Aerial Shot and Cockpit View -- 5.4.3 Model 3-Bullet Time -- 5.5 Conclusion -- References

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Garfield Lau, Chi Sum The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

ISBN:

9789819998210

9819998212

Publisher Number:

99996218856

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.