| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 221 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
"A Robert B. Heilman book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index. |
| Contents |
Sleeping through catastrophe: Dreams, cataclysmic modernity, and the promises of literary realism -- Dreaming as representation: Lu Xun's Wild grass and realism's social address -- Realism's hysterical bodies: narrative and oneiric counternarrative in Mao Dun's fiction -- Sleepless nights in fast socialism: dream rhetoric and fiction in the Mao era -- Dream fugue: Jiang Qing, the end of the cultural revolution, and Zong Pu's fiction -- Conclusion: Lu Xun and the dreams of politics and literature. |
| Summary |
The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation-building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People's Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Chinese literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Dreams in literature.
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Realism in literature.
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Dreams in literature. |
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Realism in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. |
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HISTORY / Asia / China. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The edge of knowing Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017] 9780295998992 (hardcover : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2016020390 |
| ISBN |
9780295999005 ebook |
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0295999004 |
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9780295998992 hardcover : acid-free paper |
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0295998997 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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