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From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
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From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature

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This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures’ traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Country
United States
Date
15 January 2011
Pages
148
ISBN
9781557535764

This book is a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the excessive and capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis. The author further postulates, through critical analysis several works, that these aesthetic practices of modernity suggest a deliberate historical hyperbolization of literary agency. Such an agency is in turn constructed imaginatively and affectively as a means to redress different cultures’ traumatic encounter with modernity. The volume will be of interest to scholars including undergraduate and graduate students of Romanticism, philosophy, history, English literature, Chinese literature, comparative literature, and (comparative) cultural studies.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Country
United States
Date
15 January 2011
Pages
148
ISBN
9781557535764