From Burke and Wordsworth to the Modern Sublime in Chinese Literature
This is a study of the transformation of the aesthetics of the sublime from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China. It sets up the former and the latter as distinct but historically analogous moments and argues that both the European Romantic reinvention of the sublime and its later Chinese transformation represent cultural movements built on the capacious nature of the sublime to counter their shared sense of historical crisis.
Yi Zheng teaches literature at the University of Sydney. Her recent publications include Civility and Class in Contemporary Chinese Print Media (2010).
A historical-textual study about transformations of the aesthetics of the sublime - the literary and aesthetic quality of greatness under duress - from early English Romanticism to the New Poetry Movement in twentieth-century China.