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From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature (Comparative Cultural Studies)
Yi Zheng
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Paperback. A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies Series. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 249.
This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest ... Read more
This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime"the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress"from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Comparative Cultural Studies Series
Number of Pages
148
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535764
SKU
V9781557535764
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About Yi Zheng
Yi Zheng teaches literature at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include Civility and Class in Contemporary Chinese Print Media (2010).
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