Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts
  • Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped
  • Tradition redux: parody and pathology
  • Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction
  • Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition
  • Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection
  • The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition
  • Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people
  • Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow
  • Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.