
The Lyrical in Epic Time
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Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture in Chinese history and the precarious consequences it brought about: betrayal, self-abjuration, suicide, and silence. Despite their divergent backgrounds and commitments, the writers, artists, and intellectuals discussed in this book all took lyricism as a way to explore selfhood in relation to solidarity, the role of the artist in history, and the potential for poetry to illuminate crisis. They experimented with poetry, fiction, film, intellectual treatise, political manifesto, painting, calligraphy, and music. Western critics, Wang shows, also used lyricism to critique their perilous, epic time. He reads Martin Heidegger, Theodor Adorno, Cleanth Brooks, and Paul de Man, among others, to complete his portrait.
The Chinese case only further intensifies the permeable nature of lyrical discourse, forcing us to reengage with the dominant role of revolution and enlightenment in shaping Chinese-and global-modernity. Wang's remarkable survey reestablishes Chinese lyricism's deep roots in its own native traditions, along with Western influences, and realizes the relevance of such a lyrical calling of the past century to our time.
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Prologue
Introduction: Inventing the "Lyrical Tradition"
Part I
1. "A History with Feeling"
2. The Three Epiphanies of Shen Congwen
3. Of Dream and Snake: He Qifang, Feng Zhi, and Born-Again Lyricism
4. A Lyricism of Betrayal: The Enigma of Hu Lancheng
Part II
5. The Lyrical in Epic Time: The Music and Poetry of Jiang Wenye
6. The Riddle of the Sphinx: Lin Fengmian and the Polemics of Realism in Modern Chinese Painting
7. The Spring That Brought Eternal Regret: Fei Mu, Mei Lanfang, and the Poetics of Screening China
8. And History Took a Calligraphic Turn: Tai Jingnong and the Art of Writing
Coda: Toward a Critical Lyricism
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index
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