From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature

by Yi Zheng

This volume presents a historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime-the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress -from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. Zheng sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557535760
• ISBN13: 9781557535764
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"