MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03863cam a22004818i 4500
001 15436070
005 20210506090551.0
008 201113s2021 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2020051686
024 $a99987100639
035 $a(OCoLC)on1178643436
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dYDX$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dUKMGB
019 $a1178641106
020 $a9780823294787$q(hardback)
020 $a0823294781
020 $a9780823294787$q(paperback)
020 $z9780823294800$q(epub)
020 $a082329479X
020 $a9780823294794
035 $a(OCoLC)1178643436$z(OCoLC)1178641106
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPN49$b.S846 2021
082 00 $a801$223
100 1 $aSun, Emily,$eauthor.
245 10 $aOn the horizon of world literature :$bforms of modernity in romantic England and republican China /$cEmily Sun.
263 $a2104
264 1 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2021.
300 $a1 volume ;$c23 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aLit Z
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization. The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds. Sun's book brings to light the disciplinary-historical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles. By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and non-Western languages. It establishes the critical significance of Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new paths of research in global Romanticism and global nineteenth-century studies. And it offers a new approach to analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural transformations of early twentieth-century China"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aCivilization, Modern, in literature.
650 0 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and Chinese.
650 0 $aComparative literature$xChinese and English.
650 7 $aCivilization, Modern, in literature.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00863110
650 7 $aComparative literature$xChinese and English.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01766819
650 7 $aComparative literature$xEnglish and Chinese.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01766818
650 7 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01000005
852 0 $bbar$hPN49$i.S846 2021