Old stories retold
Subtitle: narrative's access to a vanishing past in modern China
By: G. Andrew Stuckey.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739123621
Subjects: Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Chinese literature -- Taiwan -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Intertextuality
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts; title: Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped; title: Tradition redux: parody and pathology; title: Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction; title: Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition; title: Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection; title: The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition; title: Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people; title: Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow; title: Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's the ancient capital.