TY - BOOK ID - 80833337 TI - Reading East Asian writing AU - Hockx, Michel AU - Smits, Ivo PY - 2003 SN - 9781136134104 1136134107 0700717609 9780700717606 9780203037614 9781136134029 9781136134180 9781138863491 1138863491 0203037618 1136134026 PB - London New York DB - UniCat KW - Chinese literature KW - Japanese literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80833337 AB - This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various new theories that have emerged during the past two decades, uprooting traditional forms of understanding literary texts, their function, their readership and their interpretation. Often confined to discussion of a specific country or area, these theories have been criticised for their Western bias.This collection breaks through these barriers, providing an opportunity for scholars of two closely ER -