Configurations of the real in Chinese literary and aesthetic modernity
By: by Peter Button.
Series: Ideas, history, and modern China -- 1
Publisher: Koninklijke Brill NV
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789004170957
Subjects: Chinese fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Socialist realism in literature
Description: "Tracing the formation of the modern concept of literature in 20th century China, this book examines the emergence of the Chinese socialist realist novel in relation to the literary and philosophical currents globalized in the wake of capitalist modernity"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism; title: Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"; title: The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in  Chinese Marxism, New Criticism and Adorno; title: Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman; title: Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of Youth.