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Title
Modernist poetics in China : consumerist economics and Chinese literary modernism / Tiao Wang, Ronald Schleifer.
ISBN
9783031009136 (electronic bk.)
3031009134 (electronic bk.)
9783031009129
3031009126
Published
Cham : Springer, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-00913-6 doi
Call Number
PL2303
Dewey Decimal Classification
895.109
Summary
This book examines organizations of consumerist economics, which developed at the turn of the twentieth century in the West and at the turn of the twenty-first century in China, in relation to modernist poetics. Consumerist economics include the artificial "person" of the corporation, the vertical integration of production, and consumption based upon desire as well as necessity. This book assumes that poetics can be understood as a theory in practice of how a world works. Tracing the relation of economics to poetics, the book analyzes the impersonality of indirect discourse in Qian Zhongshu and James Joyce; the impressionist discourses of Mang Ke and Ezra Pound; and discursive difficulty in Mo Yan and William Faulkner. Bringing together two notably distinct cultures and traditions, this book allows us to comprehend modernism as a theory in practice of lived experience in cultures organized around consumption. Tiao Wang is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the School of Foreign Languages, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. She has published 23 articles, 9 of which are in English, focused on American and European modernism. She is also co-translator of Yong Bao Teng Tong (2017), a translation of Pain and Suffering by Ronald Schleifer (2014). Ronald Schleifer is George Lynn Cross Research Professor and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma, USA. His publications in literary modernism include Modernism and Time: The Logic of Abundance in Literature, Science, and Culture, 18801930 (2000), Modernism and Popular Music (2011), and A Political Economy of Modernism: Literature, Post-Classical Economics, and the Lower Middle-Class (2018). .
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 16, 2022).
Series
Palgrave studies in literature, culture and economics.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783031009129
Introduction Gai : Modernity as Change: Introductory Notes on Culture, Enlightenment Modernity, Capitalism, Complexity, Semantic Overlap
1.Shi Chang Jing Ji : Market Economy: Modernity, Corporate Capitalism, and Chinese Literature since 1978
2. Xian Feng : Economies of Meaning: Semiotics, the Avant-Garde, And Corporate Capitalism
3. Che Dan : The Bathos of High Literary Modernism: Qian Zhongshus Fortress Besieged and Performances of Literary Joking
4. Zhou : The Sublime Poetics of Literary Modernism: Luminous Detail and the Pursuit of Immanence in the Poetry of Mang Ke
5. Kun Nan : Difficulty and Clan in Literary Modernism: Faulkners The Sound and the Fury and Mo Yans Big Beasts & Wide Hips
Afterword Fei Jian Dan : The Non-Simplicities of Culture: A Concluding Note.
