Chinese Literature

Chinese Literature
Author: Sabina Knight
Publisher: OUP USA
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2012-02-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019539206X


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This book tells the story of Chinese literature, from prehistory to the present, in terms of literary culture's key role in supporting social and political concerns. A welcome guide for teachers, students, and lay readers, Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction honours traditional Chinese understandings of literature as encompassing history and philosophy, as well as the evolution of poetry and poetics, storytelling, drama, and the novel.

Chinese Literature
Language: en
Pages: 158
Authors: Sabina Knight
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-03 - Publisher: OUP USA

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This book tells the story of Chinese literature, from prehistory to the present, in terms of literary culture's key role in supporting social and political conc
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 158
Authors: Sabina Knight
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its lite
Classical Chinese Literature: From antiquity to the Tang dynasty
Language: en
Pages: 1252
Authors: John Minford
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Contains English translations of Chinese writings drawn from throughout a period of four hundred years, including poems, drama, fiction, songs, biographies, and
German Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Language: en
Pages: 185
Authors: Nicholas Boyle
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-02-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the p
Classical Literature
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: William Allan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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William Allan's Very Short Introduction provides a concise and lively guide to the major authors, genres, and periods of classical literature. Drawing upon a we