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Author : Yuming Luo
Release : 2011
Genre : Chinese literature
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis A Concise History of Chinese Literature by : Yuming Luo
Download or read book A Concise History of Chinese Literature written by Yuming Luo. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuming Luo
Release : 2011-06-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 672/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Concise History of Chinese Literature (2 vols.) by : Yuming Luo
Download or read book A Concise History of Chinese Literature (2 vols.) written by Yuming Luo. This book was released on 2011-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Chinese literature from its early beginnings through the end of the Qing dynasty, this recent work from Professor Luo Yuming of China’s Fudan University seeks to provide, by adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, a coherent, panoramic description of the development of Chinese literature and its major characteristics. As one of the very few English translations of such works by Chinese authors it seeks to inform the Western audience of the recent viewpoints and scholarship on the topic from a leading Chinese scholar. It may also provide some grounds of comparison and contrast with equivalent works in the West.
Author : Yuming Luo
Release : 2011
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 664/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Concise History of Chinese Literature by : Yuming Luo
Download or read book A Concise History of Chinese Literature written by Yuming Luo. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics.
Author : David Damrosch
Release : 2022-06-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 904/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Literature by : David Damrosch
Download or read book Literature written by David Damrosch. This book was released on 2022-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITERATURE A WORLD HISTORY An exploration of the history of the world’s literatures and the many varieties of literary expression Literature: A World Historyencompasses all the world’s major literary traditions, emphasizing the interrelationship of local and national cultures over time. Spanning global literature from the beginnings of recorded history to the present day, this expansive four-volume set examines the many varieties of the world’s literatures in their social and intellectual contexts. Its four volumes are devoted to literature before 200 CE, from 200 to 1500, from 1500 to 1800, and from 1800 to 2000, with four dozen contributors providing new insights into the art of literature, and addressing the situation of literature in the world today. Organized throughout in six broad regions—Africa, the Americas, East Asia, Europe, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania, and West and Central Asia—Literature: A World History offers readers a clear and consistent treatment of diverse forms of literary expression across time and place. Throughout the text, particular emphasis is placed on literary institutions within different regional and linguistic cultures and on the relations between literature and a spectrum of social, political, and religious contexts. Features work by an international panel of leading scholars from around the globe, in Africa, the Middle East, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Europe, and the United States Provides a balanced overview of national and global literature from all major regions of the world from antiquity to the present Highlights the specificity of regional and local cultures throughout much of literary history, together with cross-cutting essays on topics such as different writing systems, court cultures, and utopias Literature: A World History is an invaluable reference work for undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars looking for a wide-ranging overview of global literary history.
Author : Min Wang
Release : 2013-07-05
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 894/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography by : Min Wang
Download or read book The Alter Ego Perspectives of Literary Historiography written by Min Wang. This book was released on 2013-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book mainly discusses about the alter ego perspectives in literary historiography. This comparative analysis of the major Chinese literary histories in China and in the West brings to light the alter ego perspectives of Stephen Owen in literary historiography. The most interesting part of the book will be the interpretation of new notions and perspectives proposed by Stephen Owen, especially in the newly published The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature (2010). This book gives a detailed overview about the different stages of writing Chinese literary history and the different modes of literary historiography in China and in the West. Two case studies of Chinese poems are made on the notion of discursive communities and the Cultural Tang. Readers will a better understanding about the paradigm of literary historiography and the interrelationships between the different modes of literary historiography and the intellectual history.
