From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Comparative Cultural Studies
ISBN-10
1557535760
ISBN-13
9781557535764
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Imprint
Purdue University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 2011
Print length
148 Pages
Weight
275 grams
Dimensions
22.60 x 14.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: general
Ksh 5,600.00
Werezi Extended Catalogue
0 in stock
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Secure
Quality
Fast
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.
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 a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures' traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies.
Get From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Purdue University Press and it has pages.
