World Literature History

Author: Zhang Deming
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: This book takes a global perspective of the 21st century, with the construction/deconstruction of modernity as its central theme. It describes the development of world literature as a whole, breaking the conventional practice of separating Eastern and Western literatures in general literary histories. Written in the style of a symphony score, it not only showcases the diachronic development of the main melody but also presents the rich harmonies, counterpoints, and bass lines across the horizontal plane. It strives to let facts speak, selectively arranging and describing the process of events to provide readers with more historical, social, and cultural information related to literature. The book uses simple and accessible, non-academic language to convey essential information to readers. The selected text excerpts themselves also hold aesthetic value, and when strung together, they can be considered an anthology of famous passages from literary masterpieces.