The Pursuit of Aesthetic Modernity

Author: Wang Yijun
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Publish Date: 2003-08-01
Features: This book is a paper with a comparative poetics flavor. The author strongly agrees with the "positive" cultural relativism stance advocated by the American scholar Earl Miner, which holds that to truly achieve the essence of "comparison" in comparative poetics research, one must study the fundamental concepts, principles, and core issues of different poetic systems across cultures, especially the two completely heterogeneous poetic systems of the East and the West. This book, within this cross-cultural research perspective, highlights the pursuit of expressive writing in modern Chinese fiction.