As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview - not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation - comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association's 1993 report on the state of the ...
The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic calls for and applies a new model of comparative literature - one that, instead of taking for granted the commensurability of traditions and texts, gives incompatibility and contradiction their due. Exposing contemporary literary theory to the risks of ancient Chinese literature (and vice versa), this book ...
This anthology collects poetry by Chinese women writing between the the Han Dynasty and the 20th century. To present a context for the history of Chinese women poets, biographical and critical writing by and about women, also drawn from throughout Chinese history, is also included.
"China" and "the West," "us" and "them," the "subject" and the "non-subject" - these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut ...
This anthology of Chinese women s poetry in translation brings together representative selections from the work of some 130 poets from the Han dynasty to the early twentieth century. To measure the development of Chinese women s poetry, one must take into account not only the poems but also the prose writings prefaces, biographies, theoretical ...
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