| A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune: Classical-Style Poetry of Modern Chinese Writers Contributor(s): Yang, Haosheng (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004310797 ISBN-13: 9789004310797 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $153.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.15 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Modernity Set to a Pre-Modern Tune, Haosheng Yang provides an in-depth study of the classical-style poems of the most iconoclastic May Fourth Chinese writers (Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Zhou Zuoren, Guo Moruo, and Nie Gannu) and highlights the five literary masters' engagement with traditional lyricism as their critical response to the sociopolitical turbulence of twentieth-century China. This study challenges the bias against classical forms as allegedly outdated modes incapable of representing modern reality in current Chinese literary history. Yang's fascinating book positions modern Chinese literature's formalistic nonlinearity, representational experiences, and aspiration for a new voice through an old form as factors that are all crucial to exploring more fully the blurred boundary between the traditional and the modern. |