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Comparative Literature and China: Methods and Perspectives

by Longxi Zhang , Sheldon Lu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789004750906
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Brill
  • Publisher Imprint: Brill
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  • Pages: 258
  • Original Price: USD 93.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 549 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

This book aims at an exploration of Chinese literary studies in comparative, cross-cultural, transnational, and global contexts. It is one of the first of its kind in dealing with methodological and theoretical issues regarding Chinese, comparative, and world literature in recent years. Contributors explore the fundamentals: the history and development of comparative literature as an academic discipline; the methodology of comparative literature and cross-cultural comparison; comparative poetics; the place of Chinese literature in the world and the relationship between Chinese literature and world literature; the role of translation in the intercultural reception of literary works; canon formation in world literature; comparative study of literary genres such as the lyric and the novel.

Contributors: Chung-An Chang, Daniel Fried, Haomin Gong, Jian Guo, Elizabeth Harper, Wen Jin, Lucas Klein, Liu Yan, Sheldon Lu, Haun Saussy, Zhang Longxi, Zhen Zhang

Zhang Longxi is a Chair Professor at Hunan Normal University and the Yenching Academy of Peking University. He is a foreign member of the Swedish Academy of Letters and Academia Europaea, and author of 30 books in East-West comparative studies.

Sheldon Lu is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California at Davis and served as Department Chair of Comparative Literature and Director of Film Studies. He has published extensively on Chinese literature, comparative literature, and film.

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