Modern Chinese Literary Thought Writings on Literature, 1893-1945

Name: Modern Chinese Literary Thought Writings on Literature, 1893-1945
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ISBN: 9780804725590

ISBN-10: 0804725594

ISBN-13: 9780804725590

Edition: 1996

Authors: Kirk A. Denton

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This volume presents a broad range of writings on modern Chinese literature. The collection reflects both the mainstream Marxist interpretation of the literary values of modern China and the marginalised views proscribed by the leftist canon.

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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 572
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Joshua S. Mostow is professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is a contributor to Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature(Columbia, 2000).Kirk A. Denton, Bruce Fulton, and Sharalyn Orbaugh are associate editors of The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature.



Preface


General Introduction




Preface to Poems from the Hut in the Human World




Foreword to the Publication of Political Novels in Translation




On the Relationship Between Fiction and the Government of the People




Preface to Oliver Twist




Preface to Part One of David Copperfield




Miscellaneous Notes on Literature (excerpts)




Incidental Remarks on Literature




On the Power of Mara Poetry




Some Modest Proposals for the Reform of Literature




On Literary Revolution




Nightmare




Humane Literature




On the Literary Arts (excerpts)




Art and Life




Replacing Religion with Aesthetic Education




Literature and Life




On Photography




Preface to The Sorrows of Young Werther




Fusing with Nature




A Critique of the New Culturists




Women and Literature




On "Literary Criticism"




My Opinions on Creativity




Preface to Call to Arms




Remarks on the Publication of Saturday




Congratulations to Happy Magazine




The Mission of the New Literature




Class Struggle in Literature




From a Literary Revolution to a Revolutionary Literature




The Bygone Age of Ah Q




On Reading Ni Huanzhi




Literature and Revolution




Dai Wangshu's Poetic Theory




Form in Poetry




The Divergence of Art and Politics




Thoughts on Realism




Realism: A "Correction"




Do Not Encroach Upon Literary Art




Regarding the Literary News and Hu Qiuyuan's Literary Arguments




Freedom for Literature but Not the Writer




On the "Third Category"




Preface to Public Cemetery




A Record of My Own Inspiration




Literature and Life




On National Defense Literature




What Do the Broad Masses Demand of Literature?




The Question of Popular Literature and Art




Excerpts from Mao Zedong




Literature and Art for the Masses and the Use of Traditional Forms




My Writing




On Writers




Universal or Restricted?




We Need the Zawen Essay




Talks at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art




Realism Today



Glossary


Bibliography


Translators


Index