Lily Briscoes Chinese Eyes

Author : Patricia Laurence
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611171768
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes written by Patricia Laurence and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously unpublished writings, Patricia Laurence places Ling, often referred to as the Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Bloomsbury constellation. In doing so, she counters East-West polarities and suggests forms of understanding to inaugurate a new kind of cultural criticism and literary description. Laurence expands her examination of Bell and Ling's relationship into a study of parallel literary communities—Bloomsbury in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. Underscoring their reciprocal influences in the early part of the twentieth century, Laurence presents conversations among well-known British and Chinese writers, artists, and historians, including Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, G. L. Dickinson, Xu Zhimo, E. M. Forster, and Xiao Qian. In addition, Laurence's study includes rarely seen photographs of Julian Bell, Ling, and their associates as well as a reproduction of Ling's scroll commemorating moments in the exchange between Bloomsbury and the Crescent Moon group. While many critics agree that modernism is a movement that crosses national boundaries, literary studies rarely reflect such a view. In this volume Laurence links unpublished letters and documents, cultural artifacts, art, literature, and people in ways that provide illumination from a comparative cultural and aesthetic perspective. In so doing she addresses the geographical and critical imbalances—and thus the architecture of modernist, postcolonial, Bloomsbury, and Asian studies—by placing China in an aesthetic matrix of a developing international modernism.

Author : Urmila Seshagiri
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801448218
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and the Modernist Imagination written by Urmila Seshagiri and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to her readings of a fascinating array of works---The Picture of Dorian Gray, Heart of Darkness --

Author : Elizabeth Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804759456
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Chinese Eye written by Elizabeth Chang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the modern British visual imagination through a study of gardens, blue and white willow plates, the opium den, and the photograph, and literary texts.

Author : Mary Ann Gillies
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802091954
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pacific Rim Modernisms written by Mary Ann Gillies and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pacific Rim Modernisms explores the complex ways that writers, artists, and intellectuals of the Pacific Rim have contributed to modernist culture, literature, and identity.

Author : Eric Hayot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195377966
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hypothetical Mandarin Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain written by Eric Hayot and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Bianchon and Rastignac's discussion of whether the former would, if he could, obtain a European fortune by killing a Chinese mandarin in Balzac's Le Pere Goriot (1835), this book traces a series of literary and historical examples in which Chinese life and European sympathy seem to hang in one another's balance. Hayots wide-ranging discussion draws on accounts of torture, on medical case studies, travelers tales, photographs, plasticized corpses, polemical broadsides, watercolors, and on oil paintings. His analyses show that the historical connection between sympathy and humanity, and indeed between sympathy and reality, has tended to refract with a remarkable frequency through the lens called "China," and why the story of the West's Chinese pain goes to the heart of the relation between language and the body and the social experience of the modern human being.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Chinese Literature and Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : New York, Harcourt, Brace [1927]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To the Lighthouse written by Virginia Woolf and published by New York, Harcourt, Brace [1927]. This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced engineering has made it necessary for all engineers to become exposed to computer-based tools and techniques. The computational technology, which allows engineers to carry out data modelling, vizualisation and distribution techniques, is known as computer-aided engineering (CAE). This book is designed to assist undergraduate engineering students enrolled in non-computer related departments, who need more fundamental education in CAE.

Author : Mark Hussey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780944473870
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woolf Studies Annual Volume 14 written by Mark Hussey and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume compiles the latest in scholarship and reviews on Virginia Woolf, the major 20th-century modernist author.

Author : Karen An-Hwei Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prosthetic Texts/phantom Originals written by Karen An-Hwei Lee and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Ruth Miller
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Woolf: The Frames of Art and Life written by C. Ruth Miller and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-11-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An attempt to illuminate Virginia Woolf's aesthetic by providing an original thoery regarding her use of the random frames provided by life. Her novels are shown to use windows, thresholds, mirrors and, less directly, rooms to frame scenes which chart the border between life and art.