赵毅衡著《The River Fans Out》出版

 

Book Title: The River Fans Out

Book Subtitle: Literature and its Theories in China

Author: Yiheng Zhao

Year: 2020

Publisher: Springer

eBookISBN: 978-981-15-7724-6

HardcoverISBN：978-981-15-7723-9

 

作者简介

Yiheng Zhao (1943-), Professor of Semiotics and Narratology at the College of Literature & Journalism, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, is currently the Director of ISMS (the Institute of Semiotics & Media Studies), Chairman of the Academic Committee of ACCS (The Association of Chinese Communication andSemiotic Studies), and member of the Collegium of IASS (The International Association of Semiotic Studies).

He graduated from Nanjing University (B.A. 1968), the Graduate School of theAcademy of Social Sciences (M.A. 1982), and the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1987). He taught at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, for almost 20 years before resettling in China.

He specializes in formal studies of art, literature, and culture. Since the late 1970s, he wrote two dozens of books and around 250 essays on those topics. Hismajor works include The Uneasy Narrator (1994), Toward a Modern Zen Theatre (2001) in English, The Muse from Cathay (1983), Semiotics of Literature (1984), Comparative Narratology (1994), The Lure of the Other Bank (2003), Semiotics: Principles and Problems (2011), A General Narratology (2013), and Philosophical Semiotics (2017) in Chinese. Some of his works were republished in his 8-volume Selected Works (2013), and 12-volume Collected Works (2019).

 

内容简介

This book presents 18 highly influential essays on Chinese literature and semiotics by Professor Zhao Yiheng, including his analysis and discussions of the development of Chinese literature and its characteristics from traditional to modern times. It is divided into three parts: traditional Chinese literature, contemporary Chinese literature, and semiotics. In the first part, Professor Zhao summarizes the core elements of narrative cultural relations, ethical dilemmas, and narrative features. He also provides a comprehensive description of the formal structures in Chinese traditional literature. Taking the traditional Chinese play White Rabbit as a case, he discusses the connections between the narrative structure and the characteristics of Chinese novels and stratification of Chinese culture.

 

 

目录：

 

Part I Semio-Narratology

1 Redefining Sign/Symbol and Semiotics

1.1 What Is a Sign?

1.2 Symbol and/or Sign

1.3 Definition of Semiotics

Works Cited

2 The Fate of Semiotics in China

2.1 Bumpy Road for Formal Studies

2.2 The Rise of Semiotics in China

2.3 The Success of Narratology

2.4 Linguistics as the Usher of Semiotics

2.5 Particularities of Semiotics in China Today

2.6 Semiotics in China Poised to Leap

References

3 The Problem of Time in a General Narratology

3.1 A New Definition of the Minimal Narrative

3.2 Classification One: Factual/Fictional

3.3 Classification Two: Media

3.4 Classification Three: Moods

References

4 The Narrator and His/Her/Its Frame-Person Duality:

An Analysis in General Narratology

4.1 The Puzzle of the Narrator

4.2 The Narrativization

4.3 Factual Narratives: The Author-Narrator

4.4 Fictional Narrator: Split Personality

4.5 Split Narrator in Performance

4.6 Conclusion: Narratorial Duality Forever

Works Cited

5 Middle Reclining: The Repositioning of Cultural Markedness

 

Part II Traditional Chinese Literature

6 Subculture as Moral Paradox: A Study of the Texts of the White Rabbit Play

6.1 Defining the Field

6.2 The White Rabbit Play

6.3 A Comparison of the Three White Rabbit Opera Versions

6.4 The Farcical

6.5 Chinese Cinderella, the Moralist

6.6 The Moral Conservatism of Popular Drama

6.7 The Moral Dualism in Subcultural Texts

6.8 The “Selected Act” Texts of the White Rabbit Play

7 Historiography and Fiction in Chinese Culture

8 Chinese Fiction and Its Narrator

9 The Cultural Status of Chinese Fiction

10 The Second Tide: Chinese Influence on American Poetry Today

 

Part III Recent Chinese Literature

11 The Rise of Metafiction in China

12 Pure Poetry, Impure Criticism, and the Power of Academia: Some Paradoxes Concerning the History of New-Wave Poetry

13 Fiction as Subversion: Yu Hua

14 Ma Yuan, the Chinese Fabricator

15 A Fearful Symmetry: The Novel of the Future in Twentieth-Century China

16 Sensing the Shift—New Wave Literature and Chinese Culture

16.1 My Intention

16.2 The Three Continuities

16.3 New Wave Sensibility?

16.4 Pre-textuality

16.5 Pre-textuality During Cultural Reorientation

16.6 The Search Outside

16.7 Literati Genres

16.8 The Function of the Counterculture

16.9 New Wave Sensibility Is the Sensibility of Reorientation

17 The Poetics of Death

18 The River Fans Out: Chinese Fiction Since the Late 1970s

18.1 “Scar Literature” and After

18.2 The New Waves

18.3 The Avant-Garde

18.4 Painless Entertaining

18.5 Young Writers “Turning Inside”

18.6 New Works by Established Writers

18.7 New Novelists of the 1990s

18.8 Chinese Novel in the Diaspora

Major Novels of the Period Available in English

19 The New Waves in Recent Chinese Fiction