The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)

The Change of Narrative Modes in Chinese Fiction (1898–1927)

Author: Pingyuan Chen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-02-17

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9811662029

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This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts themselves and the social-cultural factors that triggered the transformation of the narrative mode in Chinese fiction. Based on empirical data, the author argues that this transformation was not only inspired by translated Western fiction, but was also the result of a creative transformation in tradition Chinese literature.


Narrative Discourse

Narrative Discourse

Author: Gérard Genette

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780801492594

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Genette uses Proust's Remembrance of Things Past as a work to identify and name the basic constituents and techniques of narrative. Genette illustrates the examples by referring to other literary works. His systemic theory of narrative deals with the structure of fiction, including fictional devices that go unnoticed and whose implications fulfill the Western narrative tradition.


The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English

The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English

Author: Jenny Stringer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 774

ISBN-13: 0192122711

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Survey of twentieth century English-language writers and writing from around the world, celebrating all major genres, with entries on literary movements, periodicals, more than 400 individual works, and articles on approximately 2,400 authors.


Conrad's Eastern Vision

Conrad's Eastern Vision

Author: A. Yeow

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-11-20

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0230583288

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This book traces the dialogic relation between Conrad's Eastern fiction and other histories, arguing that it is in the intersections of art and history that we locate Conrad's irony. In a direct response to the visual culture of his times, Conrad sets up his fictional world as a hallucinated mirage stressing the veracity of his own Eastern vision.


Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Author: Margaretta Jolly

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-04

Total Pages: 1141

ISBN-13: 1136787445

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature

The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature

Author: Mark Gamsa

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 9004168443

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Focusing on the translation and translators of Boris Savinkov, Mikhail Artsybashev and Leonid Andreev, this book explores the processes of the translation, transmission and interpretation of Russian literature in China during the first half of the 20th century.