Title: The edge of knowing : dreams, history, and realism in modern Chinese literature /
Authors: Chan, Roy Bing,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Chinese literature History and criticism.; Dreams in literature.; Realism in literature.; Chinese literature.; Dreams in literature.; Realism in literature.
Contents: Sleeping through catastrophe: Dreams, cataclysmic modernity, and the promises of literary realism -- Dreaming as representation: Lu Xun's Wild grass and realism's social address -- Realism's hysterical bodies: narrative and oneiric counternarrative in Mao Dun's fiction -- Sleepless nights in fast socialism: dream rhetoric and fiction in the Mao era -- Dream fugue: Jiang Qing, the end of the cultural revolution, and Zong Pu's fiction -- Conclusion: Lu Xun and the dreams of politics and literature.