{"title":"Between the Theater and the Novel","authors":"E. Sun","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 investigates the domestic novel as a literary form in which the woman as protagonist and the site of the household come to the fore as subject and scene of modernity. It concentrates on novels by two of the form’s pre-eminent practitioners in English and Chinese, Jane Austen and Eileen Chang, who have drawn comparisons to each other for their clear, even cold-eyed, depictions of social and economic constraints on femininity and the complexity of feminine interiority. It reads together Austen’s 1814 Mansfield Park and Chang’s 1967 novels, Yuannü and The Rouge of the North, rewritings of her 1943 novella Jinsuo ji. These novels show how changes in the articulation of femininity in different historical and cultural contexts take place in correlation to redefinitions of the status of the household itself as site of modern life. Each novel incorporates the medium of theater to restage “woman” as modern agent and spectatorial subject on the plane of the ordinary.","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123640733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice","authors":"E. Sun","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 1 approaches the literary manifesto as an exemplary form of literary modernity, which writers all over the world used in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to declare bold new conceptions of literature and aesthetics. It focuses on texts by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lu Xun, major writers whose critical sophistication and wide-ranging erudition have made their work sources of both literary influence and forces in ongoing legacies of cultural critique. While the chapter focuses on Shelley’s 1821 A Defence of Poetry and Lu Xun’s 1908 “On the Power of Mara Poetry” and “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices,” it refers also more widely to other of these authors’ writings that sustain and extend the preoccupation with the emancipatory power of poetic voice found in the aforementioned literary manifestoes.","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133779594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader","authors":"E. Sun","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 2 moves from the high register of the literary manifesto, with its claims to inaugurate and emancipate, to the middling register of the tale collection, whose aim is to enchant and entertain. The tale collection has long held popular appeal across cultures, serving as vehicle for the recounting of adventures in faraway places or supernatural events in everyday life. This chapter approaches Charles and Mary Lamb’s 1806 Tales from Shakespeare, a redaction of twenty plays by Shakespeare for children, as a variation on such a form. It studies translator Lin Shu’s 1904 translation of the Lambs’ Tales as Yinbian Yanyu, the first Shakespearean text of any sort to appear in China. It examines how each set of Shakespearean retellers manipulates the form of the tale collection to address and fashion an imagined “common reader”—that quintessentially nineteenth-century character of global literary and cultural history whose ascendancy in various locales is predicated on the spread of literacy and the increasing accessibility of printed matter.","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"102 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122924306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay","authors":"E. Sun","doi":"10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823294787.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 3 examines the form of the familiar or informal essay, which flourished in Republican China from the early 1920s until the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, facilitated by the vibrant periodical press in metropolitan areas. In a 1921 essay in the Beijing Chen Bao or Morning News, Zhou Zuoren points to a line of Anglo-American essayists from Addison to Chesterton as inspiration for his Chinese contemporaries. What characterizes the familiar or informal essay, as distinct from the critical or polemical essay, is a casual, informal tone, with which the author simulates conversation with the reader as peer and uses occasions in ordinary life as points of departure and topics for reflection. This chapter studies how Charles Lamb, one of the essayists Zhou mentions, and Zhou himself use the medium of the familiar essay to explore the strangeness of the everyday in writings that subtly position London and Beijing within a global network of multiple locations, metropolitan and otherwise.","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130774810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction. Reading Literary Modernities on the Horizon of World Literature","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823294817-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294817-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116559201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1 Literary Modernity and the Emancipation of Voice","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9780823294817-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823294817-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124854763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127017896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between the Theater and the Novel:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123834565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shakespearean Retellings and the Question of the Common Reader:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"26 4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123070572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estrangements of the World in the Familiar Essay:","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1g245nr.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278173,"journal":{"name":"On the Horizon of World Literature","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114275162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}