MCLC: Chinese Prose Poem announcement

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: Chinese Prose Poem announcement
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Cambria Press is proud to announce that the first-ever book on Lu Xun’s
prose poem collection Yecao (Wild Grass, a.k.a. Weeds) is now available!
Yecao features some of Lu Xun’s most complex and psychologically dense
creative works, and Lu Xun himself is purported to have said his entire
philosophy is contained in his Yecao. Despite the significance of Yecao,
until now there has not been a single comprehensive English-language study
of Yecao. One reason is Yecao’s generic uniqueness, which frustrates
efforts to locate it within the canon of modern Chinese literature. Yecao
also poses interpretive problems for its readers because of its
unprecedented experimental style (i.e., a lack of commensurability with
familiar Chinese literary genres, traditional or modern) and the intricacy
and variety of the prose poems, which are notable for their emotional
intensity, complex paradoxical structures, symbolic density,
sometimes-transparent references to contemporary historical events, and
overall generic ambiguity. The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun's
Wild Grass (Yecao) by Nicholas A. Kaldis is the perfect companion to the
reading and study of Yecao. It is not only a useful reference work and
bibliographical source but also an informative contribution to and
dialogue with the extant scholarship. Most importantly, this study engages
with the Yecao prose poems in a rigorous scholarly fashion while
simultaneously allowing each prose poem to influence its reader and
determine directions and conclusions made during the interaction of
interpretation. This book deftly addresses in detail key aspects of
context and content integral to interpreting Yecao. The Chinese Prose Poem
is a valuable resource for scholars and students of modern Chinese
literature. This book will be launched at the 2014 AAS conference in
Philadelphia, and Dr. Kaldis will be speaking about it on Friday at 7:30
p.m. at the Cambria Books Launch Session.

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