Asian literary canon

  • How long has the literary canon been around?

    The concept of a canon goes back at least as far as the 1860s, when the Victorian poet Matthew Arnold articulated an idea of culture being the pursuit of the “best that has been thought and said”.
    This very wording was used to define the aims of England's national curriculum in 1988 and remains in place to this day..

Chinese American literature transforms the American canon into which it gradually makes its way, a phenomenon which, in return, implies that the Americanness of 

How did Mo Yan contribute to Chinese literature?

He has also won international fame
Notably for the film script Red Sorghum (Hong gaoliang
1987)
And many of his works have been masterfully translated into English by Howard GoldblattIn a close collaboration that has at times influenced Mo Yan’s writing. Mo Yan has contributed to shaping the course of Chinese fiction by introducing a...

What is the literary canon?

Google Books The literary canon is one of the most lively areas of debate in contemporary literary studies. This set of essays is both timely and original in its focus on the canon in South-East Asian literatures
Covering Burma

  1. Cambodia
  2. Indonesia
  3. Laos
  4. Malaysia
  5. Philippines
Thailand and Vietnam.

When did modern Chinese literature erupt?

The conventional view
Initially promoted by May Fourth-movement literary critics and later propagated by their Marxist inheritors before and after the 1949 revolution
Is that modern Chinese literature erupted suddenly in 1918 with the publication of Lu Xun’s short story “Diary of a Madman” (see “The Madman That Was Ah Q”).

Who is the most famous Chinese novelist?

The most famous of these
The Taiwanese romantic novelist Qiong Yao
Whose novels have sold steadily for more than three decades
Is one of the most widely read authors in the Chinese-speaking world. Her contemporary
San Mao
Had a similar measure of fame.


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