Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

Rivi Handler-Spitz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2017
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
9780295741505 (ISBN)

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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.

Rivi Handler-Spitz is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College.

Acknowledgments

Note on Names and Translations

Introduction

1. Transparent Language: Origin Myths and Early Modern Aspirations of Recovery

2. The Rhetoric of Bluff: Paradox, Irony, and Self-Contradiction

3. Sartorial Signs and Li Zhi's Paradoxical Appearance

4. Money and Li Zhi's Economies of Rhetoric

5. Dubious Books and Definitive Editions

6. Provoking or Persuading Readers? Li Zhi and the Incitement of Critical Judgment

Notes

Glossary of Chinese Characters

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.04.2017
Reihe/Serie	Symptoms of an Unruly Age
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Seattle
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780295741505 / 9780295741505
Zustand	Neuware