Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity - Couverture souple

Handler-Spitz, Rivi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0295746130 ISBN 13 : 9780295746135

Editeur : University of Washington Press, 2019

Synopsis

Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century. Symptoms of an Unruly Age shows us that these texts, produced thousands of miles away from one another, each constitute cultural manifestations of early modernity. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rivi Handler-Spitz professor of Asian languages and cultures at Macalester College. She is the author of Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity (University of Washington Press, 2017); coeditor of The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China (University of Washington Press, 2021); and cotranslator of A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep Hidden (Columbia University Press, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Washington Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0295746130
• ISBN 13: 9780295746135
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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