Modernist Poetics in China
Consumerist Economics and Chinese Literary Modernism
Ronald Schleifer author Tiao Wang author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG
Published:2nd Sep '22
Should be back in stock very soon
This hardback is available in another edition too:
- Paperback£44.99(9783031009150)
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.
ISBN: 9783031009129
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260 pages
1st ed. 2022