{"id":1866,"date":"2013-04-23T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T01:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2013-04-23T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T02:23:12","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-self-articulation-and-self-accusation-in-the-works-of-yu-dafu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1866","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Yu <\/a>Dissertation Reviews<\/a> has posted Luo Liang<\/a>‘s review of Valerie Levan’s dissertation, Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945)<\/em><\/a>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

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To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.<\/em>
\n\u2014 Salman Rushdie, \u201cImaginary Homelands\u201d (1991)<\/p>\n

Valerie Levan\u2019s meticulously crafted dissertation deserves careful reading and rereading for anyone interested in comparative literature, Chinese literature, Sinophone studies, and sociolinguistics. It is not only the first serious, full-length critical study of Yu Dafu\u2019s \u90c1\u8fbe\u592baesthetic project<\/em> in English; it is also the first of its kind in its comparative breath and analytical depth in terms of formal analysis of literary texts. The dissertation truly demonstrates the merits of a comparative approach to the \u201cworld republic of letters\u201d (p. 10); at the same time, it offers thorough analyses of a major figure and a key genre in the history of modern Chinese literature and in the broad cultural context of the contemporary Sinophone world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviews has posted Luo Liang‘s review of Valerie Levan’s dissertation, Self-Articulation and Self-Accusation in the Works of Yu Dafu (1896-1945). Here\u2019s how it begins: To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world. \u2014 Salman Rushdie, \u201cImaginary … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[623],"tags":[1074,910,1072,1075],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-u6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2367,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2367","url_meta":{"origin":1866,"position":0},"title":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Ding Yaokang & Ming-Qing Literature","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Dissertation Reviews has posted Casey Schoenberger's review of Ling Xiaoqiao's dissertation, Re-reading the Seventeenth Century: Ding Yaokang (1599-1669) and His Writings. 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