Crosscurrents in the literatures of Asia and the West : essays in honor of A. Owen Aldridge / edited by Masayuki Akiyama and Yiu-nam Leung
- Bib ID:
- 1707275
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Assocaited University Press, c1997
- 235 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0874136393
- Summary:
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The essays in this volume provide a straightforward approach to East-West literary relationships, in contrast to the marginalized and Eurocentric perspectives that still dominate mainstream comparative literature.
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- A. Owen Aldridge: A Profile
- A. Owen Aldridge's Writings on East-West Literary Relations
- Cultural Discourse and Cultural Intercourse / Dai-yun Yue
- Genre and Canon: An Inquiry into the Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Literature / Heh-hsiang Yuan
- The Zeitgeist and Herder's Reconstruct of China / Adrian Hsia
- Shades of Enlightenment: Concepts of Modernization and Westernization in Meiji Japan / John T. Dorsey
- Mark Twain in Japan, Reconsidered / Shunsuke Kamei
- Through Asian Eyes: American Culture on the Silver Screen / Seong-kon Kim
- Ezra Pound's Tensional Dialogue with the Chinese Concept of Nature / Wai-lim Yip
- Metaphor in the Sciences and in the Humanities: Logic, Rhetoric, or Heuristic? / Eugene Eoyang
- Feng Zhi and His Goethean Sonnet / Marian Galik
- Dystopia as an Alternative Historical Hypothesis of Eutopia: The Life Histories of Eutopia in Animal Farm and A Utopian Dream / Koon-ki Tommy Ho.
- High Finance in Emile Zola and Mao Tun / Yiu-nam Leung
- A Woman's Search for Identity in A Certain Woman and The Portrait of a Lady / Masayuki Akiyama
- Koyo Ozaki's The Golden Demon in the Light of Western Fiction / Yoko Matsui
- The Role of Ogai Mori's Translation of Hans Christian Andersen's Improvisatoren in the Poetical Works of Takuboku Ishikawa / Matoshi Fujisawa
- Class Conflict and the Politics of Gender in Arden of Faversham and Kan Tou Chin / I-chun Wang
- Female Rebellion: Old Style and New / Kai-chong Cheung
- Tsuda Umeko as University Founder and Cultural Intermediary / Naomi Matsuoka.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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