The River Fans Out: Literature and its Theories in China

Author:   Yiheng Zhao
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
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9789811577260


Pages:   278
Publication Date:   08 October 2021
Format:   Paperback
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This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times. It is divided into three parts: traditional Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese literature, and semiotics. In the first part, Professor Zhao summarizes the core elements of narrative cultural relations, ethical dilemmas, and narrative features. He also provides a comprehensive description of the formal structures in Chinese traditional literature. Taking the traditional Chinese play White Rabbit as a case, he discusses the connections between the narrative structure and the characteristics of Chinese novels and stratification of Chinese culture.

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Author:   Yiheng Zhao
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition:   1st ed. 2020
Weight:   0.444kg
ISBN:  

9789811577260


ISBN 10:   9811577269
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   08 October 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Yiheng Zhao (1943-), Professor of Semiotics and Narratology at the College of Literature & Journalism, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, is currently the Director of ISMS (the Institute of Semiotics & Media Studies), Chairman of the Academic Committee of ACCS (The Association of Chinese Communication and Semiotic Studies), and member of the Collegium of IASS (The International Association of Semiotic Studies). He graduated from Nanjing University (B.A. 1968), the Graduate School of the Academy of Social Sciences (M.A. 1982), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1987). He taught at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, for almost 20 years before resettling in China. He specializes in formal studies of art, literature, and culture. Since the late 1970s, he wrote two dozens of books and around 250 essays on those topics. His major works include The Uneasy Narrator (1994), Toward a Modern Zen Theatre (2001) in English, The Muse from Cathay (1983), Semiotics of Literature (1984), Comparative Narratology (1994), The Lure of the Other Bank (2003), Semiotics: Principles and Problems (2011), A General Narratology (2013), and Philosophical Semiotics (2017) in Chinese. Some of his works were republished in his 8-volume Selected Works (2013), and 12-volume Collected Works (2019).

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