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Comparative Literature and China
Methods and Perspectives
Series: - Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 111
This book aims at an exploration of Chinese literary studies in comparative, cross-cultural, transnational, and global contexts. It is one of the first of its kind in dealing with methodological and theoretical issues regarding Chinese, comparative, and world literature in recent years. Contributors explore the fundamentals: the history and development of comparative literature as an academic discipline; the methodology of comparative literature and cross-cultural comparison; comparative poetics; the place of Chinese literature in the world and the relationship between Chinese literature and world literature; the role of translation in the intercultural reception of literary works; canon formation in world literature; comparative study of literary genres such as the lyric and the novel.
Contributors: Chung-An Chang, Daniel Fried, Haomin Gong, Jian Guo, Elizabeth Harper, Wen Jin, Lucas Klein, Liu Yan, Sheldon Lu, Haun Saussy, Zhang Longxi, Zhen Zhang
Contributors: Chung-An Chang, Daniel Fried, Haomin Gong, Jian Guo, Elizabeth Harper, Wen Jin, Lucas Klein, Liu Yan, Sheldon Lu, Haun Saussy, Zhang Longxi, Zhen Zhang
Zhang Longxi is a Chair Professor at Hunan Normal University and the Yenching Academy of Peking University. He is a foreign member of the Swedish Academy of Letters and Academia Europaea, and author of 30 books in East-West comparative studies.
Sheldon Lu is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Davis and served as Department Chair of Comparative Literature and Director of Film Studies. He has published extensively on Chinese literature, comparative literature, and film.
Sheldon Lu is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Davis and served as Department Chair of Comparative Literature and Director of Film Studies. He has published extensively on Chinese literature, comparative literature, and film.
Introduction
âZhang Longxi and Sheldon Lu
1 Facing Challenges and Opportunities
Chinese-Western Comparative Literature and Poetics
âZhang Longxi
2 East-West Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Lyric
Horace (BCEâ¯65â8) and Tao Yuanming é¶æ¸æ (CEâ¯365â427)
âElizabeth Harper
3 Representations of China and the Orient in 18th-Century European Drama
With a Case Study of Lenzâs Der neue Menoza
âWen Jin
4 Chinese Poetry and Badiouâs Age of the Poets
âLucas Kein
5 The Sinitic Empire of Letters
Pan-Sinitic Consciousness in Early Imperial China
âDaniel Fried
6 Some under Heaven
World Literature and the Deceptiveness of Labels
âHaun Saussy
7 The Early Modern Period, Dream of the Red Chamber, and World Literature
âSheldon Lu
8 Confrontation and Withdrawal
The Literature of âDenitiationâ
âJian Guo
9 Understanding âWorld Literatureâ in China Today
âLiu Yan
10 Comparative Literature in Taiwan in the Age of World Literature
âChung-An Chang
11 Manipulated Translation, Politicized Canon
Reception of The Gadfly in China
âZhen Zhang
12 A Re-deliberation of Minzu Literature and World Literature
The Literary World in Alaiâs Writing
âHaomin Gong
Index
âZhang Longxi and Sheldon Lu
Part 1 East-West Cross-Cultural Comparison
1 Facing Challenges and Opportunities
Chinese-Western Comparative Literature and Poetics
âZhang Longxi
2 East-West Cross-Cultural Encounters of the Lyric
Horace (BCEâ¯65â8) and Tao Yuanming é¶æ¸æ (CEâ¯365â427)
âElizabeth Harper
3 Representations of China and the Orient in 18th-Century European Drama
With a Case Study of Lenzâs Der neue Menoza
âWen Jin
4 Chinese Poetry and Badiouâs Age of the Poets
âLucas Kein
Part 2 World Literature and the Empire of Letters
5 The Sinitic Empire of Letters
Pan-Sinitic Consciousness in Early Imperial China
âDaniel Fried
6 Some under Heaven
World Literature and the Deceptiveness of Labels
âHaun Saussy
7 The Early Modern Period, Dream of the Red Chamber, and World Literature
âSheldon Lu
8 Confrontation and Withdrawal
The Literature of âDenitiationâ
âJian Guo
Part 3 Development of Comparative Literature in Chinese Cultural Spheres
9 Understanding âWorld Literatureâ in China Today
âLiu Yan
10 Comparative Literature in Taiwan in the Age of World Literature
âChung-An Chang
11 Manipulated Translation, Politicized Canon
Reception of The Gadfly in China
âZhen Zhang
12 A Re-deliberation of Minzu Literature and World Literature
The Literary World in Alaiâs Writing
âHaomin Gong
Index
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