Madmen and Other Survivors
Subtitle: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press; Eurospan [distributor
Published: August 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9789622098244
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Fiction - General; Chinese; General; Asian - Chinese; 1881-1936; Criticism and interpretation; Lu, Xun,
Description: Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writer between 1918 and 1926 into a broad context of Modernism. The fiction of Lu Xun (1881-1936) deals with China after the 1911 Revolution. Jeremy Tambling makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of Chinese fiction, the art of the short story, and literary modernism. The book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism. It attempts to put Lu Xun into as wide a perspective as possible for contemporary reading. To make his work widely accessible, he is treated here in English translation.