Title Tales of futures past : anticipation and the ends of literature in contemporary China / Paola Iovene

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Contents How I divorced my robot wife : visionary futures between science and literature -- Translation zones : anticipating world literature in socialist China -- Accelerating literary time : metropolitan editors at work -- Futures en abyme : poetry in strange loops -- A clean place to die : fog, toxicity, and shame in End of spring in Jiangnan -- Appendix 1 : literary periodicals for internal distribution in the 1950s-1960s -- Appendix 2 : poems by Li Shangyin Summary This study introduces the concept of 'anticipation' as a lens through which to re-examine the textual, institutional, and experiential aspects of Chinese literary culture from the 1950s to the first decade of the 21st century. Each of the book's five chapters details how different modes of anticipation find expression in contemporary Chinese literature, with a focus on fictional genres Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Chinese literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Chinese literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism Future, The, in literature. Expectation (Psychology) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Chinese. Chinese literature Expectation (Psychology) in literature Future, The, in literature Literatur Chinesisch Kinseisk litteratur -- historia. Framtiden i litteraturen. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780804791601 0804791600

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