Thought Nomadism in the Field of Literature: Literary Theory and Critical Practice

Author: Ma Yongxiong
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book starts from the philosophical aesthetic concepts of Deleuze, viewing the literary field as a "thousand-faced plain" where the steeds of thought can roam freely. It adopts a nomadic approach to select some cutting-edge or distinctive research subjects, exploring the integration of literary aesthetic theory and literary criticism practice. The book is divided into four parts, primarily covering the aesthetic concepts of major theorists such as Deleuze, Bakhtin, Freud, and Lacan in the field of literary aesthetics. It also addresses topics such as "dystopian" literature, literature of minority groups and Kafka, metaphysical poetry and Anglo-American New Criticism, Western concepts of tragedy and ancient Greek tragedy, archetypal criticism and contextual criticism of Shakespearean comedies, the mass cultural interpretation of realism and myth, genetic structuralism and literary sociology, as well as Eastern studies in the context of globalization.