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The Lure of the Modern
Author | : Shumei Shi |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520220645 |
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"Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange
The Lure of the Modern
Author | : Shu-mei Shih |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2001-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520935284 |
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Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and political formation of the time. Engaging critically with theories of modernism, postcoloniality, and global and local cultural studies, Shih analyzes pivotal issues—such as psychoanalysis, decadence, Orientalism, Occidentalism, semicolonial subjectivity, cosmopolitanism, and urbanism—that were mediated by Japanese as well as Western modernisms.
Lure of the Modern
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:717931389 |
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Modernism the Lure of Heresy
Author | : Peter Gay |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0393052052 |
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This is a brilliant, provocative long essay on the rise and fall and survival of modernism, by the English-languages' greatest living cultural historian.
The Lure of Modern Science
Author | : Bruce J. West,Bill Deering,William D. Deering |
Publsiher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9810221975 |
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The authors describe mostly in non-technical language the development of a new scientific paradigm based on nonlinear deterministic dynamics and fractal geometry. The concepts from these two mathematical disciplines are interwoven with data from the physical, social and life sciences. In this way rather sophisticated mathematical concepts are made accessible through experimental data from various disciplines, and the formalism is relegated to appendices. It is shown that the complexity of natural and social phenomena invariably lead to inverse power law distributions, both in terms of probabilities and spectra. This book tries to show how to think differently about familiar phenomena, such as why the bell-shape curve ought not to be used in teaching or in the characterization of such complex phenomena as intelligence.
The Lure
Author | : Felice Picano |
Publsiher | : Bold Strokes Books Inc |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781602824171 |
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Noel Cummings's life is about to change irrevocably. After witnessing a brutal murder, Noel is recruited to assist the police by acting as the lure for a killer who has been targeting gay men. Undercover, Noel moves deeper and deeper into the dark side of Manhattan's gay life that stirs his own secret desiresÑuntil he forgets he is only playing a role.
The Lure of Dreams
Author | : Harvie Ferguson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134945450 |
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From literary theory to social anthropology, the influence of Freud runs through every part of the human and social sciences. In The Lure of Dreams, Harvie Ferguson shows how Freud's writings and particulary The Interpretation of Dreams contribute, both in their content and in the baroque and dream-like forms in which they are cast, to our understanding of the character of modernity. This novel and stimulating approach to Freud and to the dilemmas of modernity and postmodernity will fascinate everyone with an interest in the development of the modern consciousness.
Feminism Women s Agency and Communication in Early Twentieth Century China
Author | : Qiliang He |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2018-06-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319896922 |
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Feminism, Women’s Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China focuses on a sensational elopement in the Yangzi Delta in the late 1920s to explore how middle- and lower-class members of society gained access to and appropriated otherwise alien and abstract enlightenment theories and idioms about love, marriage, and family. Via a network of communications that connected people of differing socioeconomic and educational backgrounds, non-elite women were empowered to display their new womanhood and thereby exercise their self-activating agency to mount resistance to China’s patriarchal system. Qiliang He’s text also investigates the proliferation of anti-feminist conservatisms in legal practice, scholarly discourses, media, and popular culture in the early Nanjing Decade (1927-1937). Utilizing a framework of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book traverses various fields such as legal history, women’s history, popular culture/media studies, and literary studies to explore urban discourse and communication in 1920s China.