From Burke and Wordsworth to the modern sublime in Chinese literature:
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Main Author: Zheng, Yi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. Purdue University Press c2010
Series:Comparative cultural studies
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Envisioning a culture of the sublime aesthetic -- The imperative of the romantic aesthetic and Burke's inquiry into the sublime -- Wordsworth's poetic prelude to modern history -- The construction of the sublime as an aesthetic movement across time and place -- Guo Moruo and the reformation of modern Chinese poetry -- Rewriting Qu Yuan and towards a sublime denouement -- Conclusion
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 148 p.)
ISBN:1557535760
161249174X
1612491855
9781557535764
9781612491745
9781612491851

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