The edge of knowing : dreams, history, and realism in modern Chinese literature /
The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to...
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Seattle :
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[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Sleeping through catastrophe: Dreams, cataclysmic modernity, and the promises of literary realism
- Dreaming as representation: Lu Xun's Wild grass and realism's social address
- Realism's hysterical bodies: narrative and oneiric counternarrative in Mao Dun's fiction
- Sleepless nights in fast socialism: dream rhetoric and fiction in the Mao era
- Dream fugue: Jiang Qing, the end of the cultural revolution, and Zong Pu's fiction
- Conclusion: Lu Xun and the dreams of politics and literature.
