Marginal Narrative--Female Fiction in 20th Century China

Author: Xu Dai
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book is neither a strict history of women's literature nor does it strictly follow the historical thread to fully reflect the historical trajectory and overall picture of a century of Chinese women's fiction. It is not a standard systematic discussion of writers, but it does take into account the basic creative of each writer involved, using this as a basis to better grasp their achievements in fiction. It is not a teaching manual of literary theory, but it highlights the penetration of poetics into specific works, striving to summarize some poetics with universal theoretical significance from specific artistic practices and literary phenomena. My focus ultimately falls on the works of truly outstanding writers, taking the "text" of the case study as the center, extracting inescapable value judgments from concrete analysis.