Hymn of Heaven's Lament

Author: Zhang Qinghua
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: This series consists of 10 books, each a collection of selected research findings by various critics since the 1990s. They include: Wang Binbing's On Literature: A Sigh and Three Whispers, Wang Gan's The Age of Watering Down, Huang Fayou's Media Construction, Li Jianzhuo's Necessary Opposition, Zhang Qinghua's Elegy for Paradise, He Zhongming's The Measure of Reality, Zhang Xueshen's Aesthetic Narration, Zhang Xinyong's Opening Up Our Literary Understanding, Yang Yang's Infinite Growth, and Zhang Yiwu's The Image of the New China. As representatives of young critics in the "e-era," they employ distinct critical styles—some profound and incisive, some sharp and unique, some rigorous and solid, some free and unrestrained—to approach contemporary literary creation from various perspectives. They express and articulate the conscience, justice, and responsibilities of literary critics, offering their unique insights and clear stances on current literary phenomena, the nature of literature, literary development, and specific. By stripping away the superficial and delving into the essence, they reveal the authentic state and spiritual trajectory of contemporary literature. It can be said that the rise and fall of China's literary scene in recent ten years, as well as significant writers, works, and breakthroughs in literary theory, have been commented on and summarized in the works of these critics. Look, they have arrived (Preface)
Autobiographical Preface: The Subtraction of Personal Memory in Literature—On Yu Hua's Elegy for Paradise, The Limit of Narrative—On Mo Yan's Narrative, Text, Memory, and History—On the Historical Philosophy and Historical Poetics in Ge Fei's Novels, Starting from This Person—A Discussion on Tashi Dawa in 1985, From Song of Youth to Song of Longing—The Narrative Mysteries and Aesthetic Transformations of Contemporary Chinese Fiction, The Flow of Folk Concepts and Three Folk Aesthetic Forms in Contemporary Literature, Psychoanalysis: Three Experimental Close Readings—A Lecture at Heidelberg University, The Model of Imperial Marriage in Contemporary Fiction, Classics and Our Time's Literature, Four Unrelated Questions, Long Night Musings—Reflections on "Reality" and "Fiction," Four Topics on Fiction, Notes from Beyond the Border, The Critic as the "Enemy" of Literature, This is Pure Fantasy—On the Critic Li Jingze, The Past and Present of Five "Misty Poets"—On Shi Zi, Shu Ting, Yamu, Lin Mang, and Liang Xiaobin, "Who Can Keep Up with This Heartbreaking Change?"—Reading Zhai Yongming, The Folk Landscape of Contemporary Poetry—Reading Notes from Independent Journals, A String of Poems Grows on the Earth—Essays on the Young Poets of Shandong Province, Five Essays, The Ethics of Poetry in the Network Era, Epilogue: The Rational Path of Poetry and Thought—On Zhang Qinghua and His Literary Criticism