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Author Button, Peter, 1960-

Title Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity [electronic resource] / by Peter Button.

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

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Description xv, 316 p.
Series Ideas, history, and modern China, 1875-9394 ; v. 1
Ideas, history, and modern China ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-299) and index.
Contents The trials of Chinese literary realism -- Lu Xun's Ah Q as gruesome hybrid -- The aesthetic critique of modernity in Chinese Marxism, new criticism, and Adorno -- Global/modern figurations of the type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman -- Aesthetics and desire in Yang Mo's Song of youth.
Summary "Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Socialist realism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004170957 (alk. paper)
9004170952 (alk. paper)

 
    
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