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Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature

by Guozhong Duan , Ming Dong Gu
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781041028123
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 228
  • Original Price: USD 200.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 518 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asian / Chinese

Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, play in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions.

Examining the formation of visual subjectivity in the philosophical works by major Chinese and Western thinkers, this book provides a comparative study of four masterworks of Chinese and American fiction, focusing on The Plum in the Golden Vase, The Story of the Stone, Moby Dick, and The Scarlet Letter. It demonstrates that there are both psychologically universal and culturally specific factors and features in the visual constitution and representation of self, identity, subject, and subjectivity.

Offering fresh insights for cross-cultural studies of intellectual thought, literature, ideology, and culture through the visual lens, this book will appeal to students and scholars engaged in comparative studies of Chinese and American thought, literature, and narrative theory.

Guozhong Duan received his PhD in literary studies from the University of Texas at Dallas and is currently an associate professor of international studies in Yangzhou University, China. He has published numerous Chinese and English articles in journals and volumes including Journal of Qinghua University, Journal of Zhejiang University, Journal of Dr. Sun Yat-sen University, and Social Sciences Abroad, and Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature.

Ming Dong Gu is the Katherine R. Cecil Professor in the Bass School of Arts, Humanities, Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has authored five English monographs and edited three English volumes. His recent publications include The Nature and Rationale of Zen/Chan and Enlightenment (2024); Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, and Aesthetics (2021); and Routledge Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature (2019). In addition, he has published more than 180 articles in English and Chinese journals.

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