Johannes D. Kaminski

Dreams in Chinese Fiction (eBook, PDF)

Spiritism, Aestheticism, and Nationalism

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

· Throughout Chinese literary history, dreams act as harbingers of important messages and as narrative devices that thoroughly confuse the order between reality and imagination. They centre around promises of healing, including sensual bliss, spiritual enlightenment, and the rejuvenation of China.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040107133
• Artikelnr.: 70880585

Autorenporträt

Johannes D. Kaminski is a scholar of comparative literature, interested in the literature of Chinese modernism, German classicism, and global science fiction. He is a SASPRO2-Fellow at the Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Lives and Deaths of Werther: Interpretation, Translation and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Preface
1. Philosophical foundations
2. Supernatural dream encounters
3. Tales of the strange
4. Erotic dreams
5. Collective national dreams
Index