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oapen-20.500.12657-862252023-12-19T02:21:13Z Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China Hu, Yamin China's Western literary criticism;China's Western metaphor theory;Chinese's culture;Western literary theory bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country’s academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory while identifying the intricate historical sources of these terms and analyzing their relevance to other disciplines and ideas. The result shows how these words function as heterogeneous cultural contexts in the complexity of experience but also how they function within the context of Chinese culture as well as Chinese literature and criticism. In this volume, the editors focus on metaphor, the other, ideology and the body from the perspectives of etymology, documentation, meanings and other core factors. Students of literature and languages, and especially Chinese literature, will benefit from this two-volume set. 2023-12-18T13:18:52Z 2023-12-18T13:18:52Z 2021 book 9780367490911 9781003044468 9780367490928 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86225 eng China Perspectives application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781000066432.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003044468 10.4324/9781003044468 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9780367490911 9781003044468 9780367490928 Routledge 183 open access
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Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country’s academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory while identifying the intricate historical sources of these terms and analyzing their relevance to other disciplines and ideas. The result shows how these words function as heterogeneous cultural contexts in the complexity of experience but also how they function within the context of Chinese culture as well as Chinese literature and criticism.
In this volume, the editors focus on metaphor, the other, ideology and the body from the perspectives of etymology, documentation, meanings and other core factors.
Students of literature and languages, and especially Chinese literature, will benefit from this two-volume set.
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