Telling Details: Chinese Fiction, World Literature (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

This book intensifies the dialogue between Chinese fiction and world literature by focusing on a common literary idiom, the detail. Noting how the detail plays a crucial role in evoking the poetics of realism across genres and cultural contexts, the book analyzes a key series of Chinese fictional works from centuries past to trace a long and distinctive tradition of detail-driven literary writing. Examining the role of the detail turns out to reveal certain unseen depths as well as the striking vulnerability of Chinese fiction in national and international contexts. With its carefully chosen case studies, the book demonstrates an intensive way to read the Chinese novel of details, exemplifying the value of deep reading in approaching complex works of world literature.

• | Author: Jiwei. Xiao
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 10, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 226 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1032197854
• | ISBN-13: 9781032197852