This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime?the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress?from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinc...

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Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Palo Alto, Calif. Ebrary 2011 West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue Univ. Press
Schriftenreihe:	Comparative cultural studies
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1700-1800 Geschichte 1900-2000 Geschichte 1800-1900 Sublime, The, in literature English poetry / History and criticism / 18th century English poetry / History and criticism / 19th century Chinese poetry / History and criticism / 20th century Comparative literature / English and Chinese Comparative literature / Chinese and English Romanticism / England Chinese poetry / English influences
Zusammenfassung:	This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime?the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress?from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates through a critical analysis of Edmund Burke?s Inquiry into the Origins of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, William Wordsworth?s Prelude, and Guo Moruo?s experimental poem ?Fenghuang Niepan? (?Nirvana of the Phoenix?) and verse drama Qu Yuan that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures? traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:	Online Ressource (x, 148 p.)
ISBN:	9781612491745 161249174X