Reading East Asian writing : the limits of literary theory
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Reading East Asian writing : the limits of literary theory
（Curzon-IIAS Asian studies series）
RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to discussion of a specific country or area, these theories have been criticised for their Western bias.
This collection breaks through these barriers, providing an opportunity for scholars of two closely related yet often independently studied cultures to present and compare their views on specific theories of literature, to discuss the advantages and shortcomings of those theories, and to consider specific difficulties related to the East-West dimension.
Table of Contents
1.Rey Chow Fateful Attachments: On Collecting, Fidelity and Lao She2. Haruo Shirane Canon Formation in Japan: Genre, Gender, Population Culture and Nationalism3. Haun Saussy La, tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute: The Surprises of Applied Structuralism4. Hilary Chung Kristeven (Mis)understandings: Writing in the Feminine5. Rein Raud The Heian Literary System: A Tentative Model6. Bernhard Fuehrer Did the Master Instruct his Followers to Attack Heretics? A Note on Readings of Lunyu 2.17. Michel Viellard-Baron The Power of Words: Forging Fujiwara no Teika's Poetic Theory. A Philological Approach to Japanese Poetics8. Daria Berg What the Messenger of Souls Has to Say: New Historicism and the Poetics of Chinese Culture9. Ivo Smits Places of Meditation: Poets and Salons in Medieval Japan
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