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Subjective Writing in Contemporary Chinese Literature
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- 作者： Jin Siyan著 , Isabelle Lee譯
- 出版社：中文大學出版社
- 出版年：2020
- ISBN：9789629967871
- EISBN：9789629967871 EPUB
- 格式：PDF,JPG
- 頁數：470
Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. Jin Siyan surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Bei Dao, and Mu Dan. She seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscover subjectivity, which is in no way limited to literature; it also covers areas such as the law, and the expression of the I confronted with an overpowering we.
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“This book provides a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and the study of its subjectivity. With a research background that traverses East and West, Jin Siyan uses cross-cultural lenses to survey the relationship between contemporary Chinese literature and modernism and to show how subjective writing is presented. The author also gives an in-depth critical analysis of contemporary Chinese poetry and its historical trajectories.”
—Yue Daiyun, Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Beijing University
“The outstanding work of Jin Siyan deals with what lies at the heart of the revolution in contemporary Chinese literary creation: the emergence of subjectivity… These analyses of the different forms that personal literary consciousness takes, among contemporary Chinese authors, are as luminous as they are new. They certainly deserve to be widely known.”
—Léon Vandermeersch, French correspondent of Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- INTRODUCTION From Textuality to Historicity: Issues and Concepts(第ix頁)
- CHAPTER I Four Figures (Phases) of the I: A History of Subjective Writing(第1頁)
- Figure I: The I as Inquisitor of Its Own Soul and Victim/Accomplice of History(第1頁)
- Figure II: The I as the Other: Dissonance of the Subject Who Refuses to Be an Accomplice of History(第6頁)
- Figure III: The I Internalised to the Very Depths of the Even Stranger Self(第7頁)
- Figure IV: I and He: Dual Time—The Present and Memory(第9頁)
- CHAPTER II An Underground Voice: Zhang Zhongxiao—Wumenglou Suibi 無夢樓隨筆 (Essays from the Dreamless Pavilion)(第13頁)
- Zhang Zhongxiao, a Voice in Utter Solitude(第19頁)
- Subjective Writing from Out of the Solitary Voice(第22頁)
- CHAPTER III Memory of the I: Disengagement, Assertion, and Interrogation of the Subject—Mu Dan(第35頁)
- Youth (1934–1937): Grave and Pensive Dawn-Light(第36頁)
- First English Influence: Youthful Prose(第38頁)
- The “Modernist” Phase (1938–1941)(第43頁)
- Mythical Evocation and the End of Chronology(第52頁)
- Transformation: From Modernism to Realism:The I Craving Realism (1949–1957)(第68頁)
- Time of “Silence” (1958–1974): Writing Abandoned(第80頁)
- Last Years (1975–1977): Metamorphosis of the I and Mythical or Divine Temptation(第82頁)
- CHAPTER IV Historicity and Internal Memory: The Today School and the Stars Group(第97頁)
- From the Chorus of the We to the Solo Performance(第98頁)
- The I Looking Out: The Today School(第104頁)
- Metamorphosis: The I and Its Shadow(第119頁)
- Historical, Internal, and Intermediate Time(第122頁)
- Breaking to Create: A Twin for Today—The Stars Group of Artists(第141頁)
- CHAPTER V A Breakthrough for Modernity: Fragmentary Women’s Writing—Xiao Hong and Zhang Ailing(第153頁)
- Periods(第154頁)
- The Committed I: First Signs of Feminism(第162頁)
- High Tension Writing: The Triad of History/Narrative/Narration—Acceleration/Deceleration(第164頁)
- CHAPTER VI Fragmentary Women’s Writing: Lin Bai and Can Xue(第175頁)
- Writing in Parentheses: Lin Bai(第175頁)
- Interrogatory Writing: Can Xue(第192頁)
- CHAPTER VII Death: Hai Zi’s City of the Sun(第201頁)
- Death: Immanentisation of the Spirit(第202頁)
- The I as Memory Stone without Memory(第209頁)
- The I Identifying with the Sun(第223頁)
- CHAPTER VIII A Commitment Both Existential and Linguistic: Zhai Yongming(第231頁)
- Illusion and Chance in Autonomous Monologue(第232頁)
- Night: An Inner Light between Before-Sense, After-Sense,and Nonsense(第235頁)
- Midnight: The Altered Instant of Disappearing/Appearing(第245頁)
- CHAPTER IX Writing: A Dreamed Elsewhere—Literary China’s Imaginary West(第253頁)
- The West: Terminology and Three Introductory Paths(第254頁)
- Figures of the West: The Religious and a Dreamed Elsewhere(第255頁)
- CHAPTER X Bei Dao: The Infinitely Other I in Search of Pure Poetry(第265頁)
- Early Steps towards a Pure Poetry(第265頁)
- The Wandering I: Internal Escape(第269頁)
- The Infinitely Othered I(第274頁)
- Ambiguity of the I(第292頁)
- Towards a Polysemy of the Word Opposed to the Univocality of the Subjective(第295頁)
- The Musicality of Poetry at Four Levels of Fracture: Can Impossibility Be Rendered Possible in Writing?(第334頁)
- CONCLUSION The Other: Identity or Identification? The Evolution of Contemporary Chinese Literature—From the Text to the Reader(第343頁)
- Subjective Writing: Concept and Issues(第343頁)
- Challenges and Approaches(第345頁)
- Outcome and Research Prospects(第348頁)
- Writing Called Into Question: The Problem of Language(第348頁)
- Women’s Writing(第350頁)
- New Research Approach: Utopian or Dystopian Writing(第352頁)
- Notes(第357頁)
- Bibliography(第389頁)
