The edge of knowing : dreams, history, and realism in modern Chinese literature / Roy Bing Chan.

By:

Chan, Roy Bing [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xi, 221 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780295999005
0295999004

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: The edge of knowingDDC classification:

895.109/005 23

LOC classification:

PL2302

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Contents:

Sleeping through catastrophe: Dreams, cataclysmic modernity, and the promises of literary realism -- Dreaming as representation: Lu Xun's Wild grass and realism's social address -- Realism's hysterical bodies: narrative and oneiric counternarrative in Mao Dun's fiction -- Sleepless nights in fast socialism: dream rhetoric and fiction in the Mao era -- Dream fugue: Jiang Qing, the end of the cultural revolution, and Zong Pu's fiction -- Conclusion: Lu Xun and the dreams of politics and literature.

Summary: The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation-building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People's Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.

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"A Robert B. Heilman book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.

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The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for revolutionary change, and the enduring legacy of traditional Chinese philosophy. At the same time, modern Chinese writers used their work to represent social reality for the purpose of nation-building. Recent political usage of dream rhetoric in the People's Republic of China attests to the continuing influence of dreams on the imagination of Chinese modernity. By employing a number of critical perspectives, The Edge of Knowing will appeal to readers seeking to understand the complicated relationship between literary form and Chinese history and politics.

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