Convergence of East-West Poetics

Williams's Negotiation with the Chinese Landscape Tradition
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-57840-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature

The present book examines William Carlos Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of the Chinese landscape tradition in his landscape writing. Focusing on Walliams’s landscape modes of landscape with(out) infused emotions, the book builds a linkage between their interactions with Chinese landscape aesthetics and shows how these conversations helped shape Williams’s cross-cultural landscape poetics. The exploration of Williams’s experiment with the Chinese serene interplay of self and landscape, the interfusion of scene and emotion, an idea of seeing from the perspective of Wang Guowei’s theory of jingjie, and the poetic space of frustration and completion in the context of space and human geography, expand the understanding of a cross-cultural landscape tradition developed by Williams through bringing into focus the convergence of East-West poetics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yang, Zhanghui

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Über Autor(innen)

Zhanghui Yang is Associate Professor of American Literature at Yunnan Normal University in China. He earned his doctorate from the University of Macau in 2021. His main research areas are China and modernism, and literature and geography, with a special focus on the interaction of Chinese classical landscape poetry and landscape writing in American modernist poetry.