Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature / edited by Hua Meng and Sukehiro Hirakawa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meng, Hua, 1944- editor.

Hirakawa, Sukehiro, 1931- editor.

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; Volume 34.

Textxet ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Chinese literature.

East and West in literature--Congresses.

East and West in literature.

Japanese literature--History and criticism--Congresses.

Japanese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, [2000]

Summary:

The present volume is the product of a joint effort made by scholars from across China (including Hong Kong), Japan and Europe. The book gathers sixteen papers devoted to literary and cultural criticism from a comparative point of view. A perspective prominent in this volume is imagology, an approach first developed by Daniel-Henry Pageaux, and which focuses on specific images in literary and other texts. The study of the image of the "foreign" in national literary traditions, for instance, belongs to the traditional purview of comparative literature. Pageaux did more than uphold this tradition. He practically reinvented it using new theoretical concepts and perspectives (in particular, semiotics and reception aesthetics). On this basis, he was able to develop a theory and a methodology that are both usable and in tune with contemporary concerns. The present book covers a wide range of topics in the study of images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature. Individual contributions deal with issues such as the genesis of the Chinese term Foreign Devil, the occurrence of Westerners in modern Chinese and Japanese literature, and the Chinese and Japanese reception of indiviual western authors and artists such as, amongst others, Oscar Wilde, Vincent Van Gogh, and Madame Roland. Some papers examine individual authors such as Lu Xun and Takeyama Michio. Others examine historical periods or literary movements. The approaches followed range from historical investigations of linguistic practices to detailed literary analyses.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

General Preface

Introduction Générale

Table of Contents

Preface

Part One: Images of Westerners in Chinese Literature

The Image of the "Red-Haired Barbarian" in Chinese Official and Popular Discourse

The Chinese Genesis of the Term "Foreign Devil"

The Image of the West in A Dream of Red Mansions

Madame Roland in China: The Reception and Reinterpretaticn of a Popular Literary Image

Byronism in Lu Xun

Young Westerners in the Writings of Chinese Scholars

Oscar Wilde: An Image of Artistic Self-Fashioning in Modern China, 1909-1949

The Image of Westerners in the Gaze of Cultural Criticism

Non vi leggemmo avante Or Memory Transformed: the Shaping of Western Authors and their Partnerships as Models for a New Literature in China (1911-49)

Images of Westerners in the Chinese Novel since the 1980s

Part Two: Images of Westerners in Japanese Literature

Images of Westerners in Tanizaki Jun'ichirō and Nakazato Tsuneko

Christianity, Christian Missionaries, and the Image of Westerners in Modern Japanese Literature

The Function of "Mediation" - Images of the French in Tales of France (Furansu Monogatari, 1909) of Nagai Kafu (1879-1959)

The Image of Westerners in Modern Japanese Literature

The Myth of Vincent Van Gogh in Modern Japan and China

The Image of the Former British Enemies in Takeyama Michio's Harp of Burma (1948)

Glossary to the text on Chinese literature

Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Title page --"Volume 10 of the Proceedings of the xvth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association "Literature as Cultural Memory", Leiden, 16-22 August 1997.".

Other Format:

Print version: Meng, Hua Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese Literature

ISBN:

9789004483545

9004483543

OCLC:

1291315262