Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature

2006 Education

Author : Wilt L. Idema
Release : 2006
Genre : Education
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Download or read book Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature written by Wilt L. Idema. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals. The 12 chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years.

Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature

2020-03-17 Literary Criticism

Author : Wilt L. Idema
Release : 2020-03-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature written by Wilt L. Idema. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals, not only because of the many decades of destructive warfare but also because of the adjustments necessary to life under a foreign regime. History became a defining subject in their writings, and it went on shaping literary production in succeeding generations as the Ming continued to be remembered, re-imagined, and refigured on new terms. The twelve chapters in this volume and the introductory essays on early Qing poetry, prose, and drama understand the writings of this era wholly or in part as attempts to recover from or transcend the trauma of the transition years. By the end of the seventeenth century, the sense of trauma had diminished, and a mood of accommodation had taken hold. Varying shades of lament or reconciliation, critical or nostalgic retrospection on the Ming, and rejection or acceptance of the new order distinguish the many voices in these writings."

The Red Brush

2020-03-23 Literary Criticism

Author : Wilt L. Idema
Release : 2020-03-23
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Red Brush written by Wilt L. Idema. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women’s writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.–1911 C.E.). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of a surprisingly diverse group of women living in Confucian China, a society that perhaps more than any other is known for its patriarchal tradition.Because of the burgeoning interest in the study of both premodern and modern women in China, several scholarly books, articles, and even anthologies of women’s poetry have been published in the last two decades. This anthology differs from previous works by offering a glimpse of women’s writings not only in poetry but in other genres as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction.The authors have presented the selections within their respective biographical and historical contexts. This comprehensive approach helps to clarify traditional Chinese ideas on the nature and function of literature as well as on the role of the woman writer."

The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China

2011-01-07 Literary Criticism

Author : Chun Mei
Release : 2011-01-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China written by Chun Mei. This book was released on 2011-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.

Honour, Violence and Emotions in History

2014-04-10 History

Author : Carolyn Strange
Release : 2014-04-10
Genre : History
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Download or read book Honour, Violence and Emotions in History written by Carolyn Strange. This book was released on 2014-04-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honour, Violence and Emotions in History is the first book to draw on emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship on the study of emotions to analyse the history of honour and violence across a broad range of cultures and regions. Written by leading cultural and social historians from around the world, the book considers how emotions - particularly shame, anger, disgust, jealousy, despair and fear - have been provoked and expressed through culturally-embedded and historically specific understandings of honour. The collection explores a range of contexts, from 17th-century China to 18th-century South Africa and 20th-century Europe, offering a broad and wide-ranging analysis of the interrelationships between honour, violence and emotions in history. This ground-breaking book will be of interest to all researchers studying the relationship between violence and the emotions.

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