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- Title
The politics of loitering and the aesthetics of the storytelling: A rereading of Zhao Shuli's 'Rhymes of Li Youcai'.
- Authors
Jiang, Hui
- Abstract
This essay traces a modernist aspect of Zhao Shuli's fiction to his popular story 'Rhymes of Li Youcai.' By using an analogy of flaneur from French resources, the essays argues that the major hero's action delineated as a constant loitering suggests a special mode of intellectual being in his relation to the social and political life he lives in, which is quite exceptional in modern Chinese literature. Moreover, a close reading raises a few theoretical questions about the nature of his storytelling art and invites a rethinking of the relationship between the May Fourth Enlightenment Literature and the Revolutionary Literature.
- Subjects
FRANCE; STORYTELLING; LITERARY aesthetics; CHINESE literature; RHYMES of Li Youcai (Book); FICTION; ZHAO Shuli, 1906-1970; INTELLECTUALS; THOUGHT &; thinking; FRENCH revolutionary literature
- Publication
Frontiers of Literary Studies in China, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 3, p277
- ISSN
1673-7318
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1007/s11702-011-0130-1