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On the Horizon of World Literature compares literary texts from asynchronous periods of incipient literary modernity in different parts of the world: Romantic England and Republican China. These moments were oriented alike by "world literature" as a discursive framework of classifications that connected and re-organized local articulations of literary histories and literary modernities. World literature thus provided-and continues to provide-a condition of possibility for conversation between cultures as well as for their mutual provincialization.The book offers readings of a selection of literary forms that serve also as textual sites for the enactment of new socio-political forms of life. The literary manifesto, the tale collection, the familiar essay, and the domestic novel function as testing grounds for questions of both literary-aesthetic and socio-political importance: What does it mean to attain a voice? What is a common reader? How does one dwell in the ordinary? What is a woman? In different languages and activating heterogeneous literary and philosophical traditions, works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lu Xun, Charles and Mary Lamb, Lin Shu, Zhou Zuoren, Jane Austen, and Eileen Chang explore the far-from-settled problem of what it means to be modern in different lifeworlds.Sun's book brings to light the disciplinary-historical impact world literature has had in shaping literary traditions and practices around the world. The book renews the practice of close reading by offering the model of a deprovincialized close reading loosened from confinement within monocultural hermeneutic circles. By means of its own focus on England and China, the book provides methods useful for comparatists working between other Western and non-Western languages. It establishes the critical significance of Romanticism for the discipline of literary studies and opens up new paths of research in global Romanticism and global nineteenth-century studies. And it offers a new approach to analyzing the cosmopolitan character of the literary and cultural transformations of early twentieth-century China.

Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Comparative literature --- Comparative literature --- Literature --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- Philosophy.

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This book combines two collections of essays written by the late professor Zuoliang Wang, works that explore the affinity between literatures and peoples, with special attention given to that between Chinese literature and western literature in the 20th century, and which underscore the role of translation therein. Both collections have been previously published in book form: Degrees of Affinity—Studies in Comparative Literature (1985) and A Sense of Beginning—Studies in Literature and Translation (1991).   As a prominent literary critic, literary historian, translator and 20th-century Chinese poet, Wang has played a unique part in English education in China. His research interests range widely, from English literature through comparative literature to translation and cultural studies, fields in which he has made outstanding accomplishments. Wang pioneered the concept of “affinity” in talking about interactions between literatures and peoples, which has since won great acclaim from both critics and common readers at home and abroad. As he points out, “momentous changes often occur when a foreign literature satisfies a sore need of an indigenous literature, thus developing a strong affinity...” And translation can fulfill a crucial role in bringing about affinity between literatures and peoples. According to Professor Wang, “Nothing is more crucial in cultural contacts, not to say cultural interactions, than translation, particularly in a country that for long periods closed its doors to the outside world, like China.”.

Linguistics. --- Comparative Literature. --- Linguistique --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. --- Comparative literature -- Chinese and English. --- Comparative literature -- English and Chinese. --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- Comparative literature --- English and Chinese. --- Chinese and English. --- Literature. --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- History and criticism

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Literature, Comparative --- Chinese drama --- English drama --- Theater --- East and West --- English and Chinese --- Chinese and English --- History and criticism --- Appreciation --- History --- Literature, Comparative - English and Chinese --- Literature, Comparative - Chinese and English --- Chinese drama - History and criticism --- English drama - Appreciation - China --- Theater - China - History

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A first ever work on comparative genre papers covering several genres on materials drawn from Chinese and Western literary traditions. The ultimate goal of the book is to describe a general, semiotics-based poetics of comparative genres and of the literary reception process.

Poetics. --- Criticism. --- Semiotics and literature. --- Comparative literature --- East and West in literature. --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- Criticism --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- Poetry --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- Technique --- Evaluation

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In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances--and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies--by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism.

Modernism (Literature) --- Chinese literature --- English literature --- Comparative literature --- Bloomsbury group. --- Bloomsberries --- Arts, English --- Authors, English --- Philosophy, English --- English influences. --- Chinese influences. --- Chinese and English. --- English and Chinese. --- History and criticism. --- Xin yue she. --- Hsin yüeh she --- Crescent Moon Society --- Neumondschule --- 新月社