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Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings

2014-06-23 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings by : Michael Lackner

Download or read book Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings written by Michael Lackner. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings

2014-06-23 LITERARY CRITICISM
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Book Synopsis Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings by : Michael Lackner

Download or read book Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian's Writings written by Michael Lackner. This book was released on 2014-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western modernity. The present volume brings together for the first time a collection of essays on the themes of freedom and fate in the creative works of Gao Xingjian.

Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings

2014-07-28 Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings by : Michael Lackner

Download or read book Polyphony Embodied - Freedom and Fate in Gao Xingjian’s Writings written by Michael Lackner. This book was released on 2014-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like artists, important writers defy unequivocal interpretations. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, is a cosmopolitan writer, deeply rooted in the Chinese past while influenced by paragons of Western Modernity. The present volume is less interested in a general discussion on the multitude of aspects in Gao's works and even less in controversies concerning their aesthetic value than in obtaining a response to the crucial issues of freedom and fate from a clearly defined angle. The very nature of the answer to the question of freedom and fate within Gao Xingjian's works can be called a polyphonic one: there are affirmative as well as skeptical voices. But polyphony, as embodied by Gao, is an even more multifaceted phenomenon. Most important for our contention is the fact that Gao Xingjian's aesthetic experience embodies prose, theater, painting, and film. Taken together, they form a Gesamtkunstwerk whose diversity of voices characterizes every single one of them.

The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

2016-07-28 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2016-07-28
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures by : Carlos Rojas

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures written by Carlos Rojas. This book was released on 2016-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man.

City of the Dead and Song of the Night

2015-02-09 Drama
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Book Synopsis City of the Dead and Song of the Night by : Gao Xingjian

Download or read book City of the Dead and Song of the Night written by Gao Xingjian. This book was released on 2015-02-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented in English for the first time in this book are two plays by Gao Xingjian originally written in Chinese: City of the Dead and Song of the Night. City of the Dead is the first of Gao Xingjian's plays to focus fully on the malefemale relationship. In this work, he transforms a wellknown ancient morality tale, "Zhuangzi Tests His Wife", which had been used to caution women against being unfaithful to their husbands, into a modern play that is in keeping with his own sympathetic stance towards women in malefemale relationships. In a certain sense, City of the Dead may be regarded as defining Gao's fundamental view that men possess a flippant and cavalier attitude to their female sexual partner or partners, and that women who become involved in sexual relationships with men are therefore doomed to suffer. Among Gao Xingjian's theatrical portrayals of the female psyche, Song of the Night is his most ambitious and most detailed one. Gao's articulation of the female psyche is embedded in a solid substratumbedrock of his autobiographical impulses. It is through female actors, and his range of ingenious theatrical innovations that Gao succeeds in convincingly portraying his personal view of the power dynamics generated in malefemale sexual relationships, and how these are played out. Together, these two plays advance Gao Xingjian's innovative theatrical experiments in dramatic prose across linguistic and cultural boundaries. The English translations of City of the Dead and Song of the Night in the present volume will lead to significant Englishlanguage productions of these plays, and concomitantly a greater understanding of Gao's plays.

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