Configurations of the Real in Chinese Literary and Aesthetic Modernity
Biographical note
Peter Button, Ph.D. (2000) in East Asian Literature, Cornell University, is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Studies at McGill University. He has published in Positions, Postcolonial Studies, and Philosophy East and West.
Readership
All those interested modern Chinese literature, Marxist aesthetics, socialist realism, literary theory, comparative literature, literary modernity and the intersections between literature, and modern philosophy.
Reviews
"This ambitious book is always engaging, often brilliant, and fantasically complex...[It] is essential reading for any scholar hoping to understand the discourse of aesthetics iin modern China..."
Thomas Moran, Middlebury College
Thomas Moran, Middlebury College
Table of contents
Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of the Modern Concept of Literature in China
1. The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism
2. Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"
3. The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in Chinese Marxism, New Criticism, and Adorno
4. Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman
5. Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of Youth
Conclusion: Exemplarity in Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan's Hongyan: From White Terror to "Red Classic"
1. The Trials of Chinese Literary Realism
2. Lu Xun's Ah Q as "Gruesome Hybrid"
3. The Aesthetic Critique of Modernity in Chinese Marxism, New Criticism, and Adorno
4. Global/Modern Figurations of the Type in Cai Yi, Heidegger, and Whitman
5. Aesthetics and Desire in Yang Mo's Song of Youth
Conclusion: Exemplarity in Luo Guangbin and Yang Yiyan's Hongyan: From White Terror to "Red Classic"
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