The edge of knowing : dreams, history, and realism in modern Chinese literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chan, Roy Bing (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2017.
Subjects:	Chinese literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Dreams in literature. Realism in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Sleeping through catastrophe: Dreams, cataclysmic modernity, and the promises of literary realism
Dreaming as representation: Lu Xun's Wild grass and realism's social address
Realism's hysterical bodies: narrative and oneiric counternarrative in Mao Dun's fiction
Sleepless nights in fast socialism: dream rhetoric and fiction in the Mao era
Dream fugue: Jiang Qing, the end of the cultural revolution, and Zong Pu's fiction
Conclusion: Lu Xun and the dreams of politics and literature.