Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature
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Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature

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Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature

About this book

Providing the reader with a systematic study of visual subjectivity in comparative thought and literature, this book analyses the role that vision and visuality, especially interpersonal visuality, plays in the constitution of subject and subjectivity in Chinese and American traditions.

Examining the formation of visual subjectivity in the philosophical works by major Chinese and Western thinkers, this book provides a comparative study of four masterworks of Chinese and American fiction, focusing on The Plum in the Golden Vase, The Story of the Stone, Moby Dick, and The Scarlet Letter. It demonstrates that there are both psychologically universal and culturally specific factors and features in the visual constitution and representation of self, identity, subject, and subjectivity.

Offering fresh insights for cross-cultural studies of intellectual thought, literature, ideology, and culture through the visual lens, this book will appeal to students and scholars engaged in comparative studies of Chinese and American thought, literature, and narrative theory.

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Yes, you can access Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Thought and Literature by Guozhong Duan,Ming Dong Gu in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Asian Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040425510
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Asian Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. Abbreviations
  10. Preface
  11. Introduction: Visual Subjectivity in Chinese and American Traditions
  12. 1 Self and Visuality in Chinese Thought
  13. 2 Theories of Visual Subjectivity in Western Thought
  14. 3 Intellectual Context for Visual Representations of Subjectivity in Chinese and American Fiction
  15. 4 Visual Politics and Narcissistic Imagining: The Sin of Seeing in The Plum in the Golden Vase
  16. 5 Hall of Mirrors and Self-Identity: Tragic Vision in The Story of the Stone
  17. 6 Visual Trap: Transcendentalist Vision and Subjectivity in Moby Dick
  18. 7 Dualistic Vision and Disciplinary Gaze: Ethics of Visuality in Hawthorne’s Fiction
  19. Conclusion: A Transcultural View of Visual Subjectivity
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index