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positions (2023) 31 (3): 623–648.
Published: 01 August 2023
... (Zhonglian 中聯, 1952 – 1967) in colonial Hong Kong, and scrutinizes how it embraced world literary classics to enhance the prestige of Cantonese films. It focuses on three 1955 adaptations: An Orphan's Tragedy ( Guxing xuelei 孤星血淚; from Great Expectations ), Anna ( Chuncan mengduan 春殘夢斷; from Anna Karenina...
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positions (2015) 23 (2): 287–316.
Published: 01 May 2015
... with a number of radical (often Christian) right-wing nationalists, taking a harshly anti-Soviet stance. In the world of literary imagination, however, the images of Russia and Russians offered by the writers of different ideological and political backgrounds were often converging. This essay shows...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 333–355.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., the migrant worker writer appears as a literary-minded youth who starts out as an avid reader of classical works, harbors the dream of literature, and writes in isolation. In contrast, most members of the Group are “unlikely writers” whose encounter with literature seems accidental. Besides Guo Fulai, none...
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positions (1994) 2 (3): 570–602.
Published: 01 August 1994
... in
an anterior, even adversarial relation to existing literary discourse and forms
of literary practice.
Significantly, both “Shi Xiu” and “Classical Love” are revisions of stories
drawn from the traditional vernacular tradition. Shi Zhicun...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (1): 69–96.
Published: 01 February 1995
... illustrates the trans-
formations of the modes of literary production and the subsequent trans-
formations of the producer.
Within the dichotomy of ya versus su hierarchy, the classical Chinese
novel or xiaoshuo...
Journal Article
positions (2002) 10 (3): 695–727.
Published: 01 August 2002
... of translations into Chinese of European classics
like Grimm’s Fairy Tales (undertaken by Zhou Zuoren) or Alice in Wonder-
land (completed in 1922 by Zhao Yuanren) or the creation of original literary
and musical works for Chinese children...
Journal Article
positions (2024) 32 (3): 513–537.
Published: 01 August 2024
... and excitement of recently written Japanese fiction, and an aversion to texts belonging to what Strauss called the “classical” tradition. The fourth section of the essay then turns to the realm of reception to understand how luminaries of mid-century American literary life judged the translated fiction...
Journal Article
positions (1995) 3 (3): 663–694.
Published: 01 August 1995
... and aesthetic telos, that is, the moral
bone that will make the animal upright and human, and writing properly
ethical and literary (to speak in quasi-Confucian terms).2 The process
whereby a narrative becomes both ethical and aesthetic...
Journal Article
positions (2014) 22 (1): 103–130.
Published: 01 February 2014
...Yoon Sun Yang Yi Injik's Tears of Blood (1906) is the pioneering piece of “new fiction” ( sin sosŏl ). As many works of this male-authored genre revolve around women's conflicts regarding marriage, family, and home life, literary critics often condescendingly disregard them as domestic fiction...
Journal Article
positions (1993) 1 (3): 553–580.
Published: 01 August 1993
... years of this
century in breaking with that part of our classical literary tradition in
which the written and the spoken language were divided, should often be
called the founders of modern Korean literature. The contribution of Yi...
Journal Article
positions (1994) 2 (2): 417–429.
Published: 01 May 1994
...
and outcasts into burakumin.9
In literary studies, the idealistic metaphysics makes possible the string of
“classics”- from Kojiki to Kafii- that are said to constitute the founda-
tional texts of Japanese civilization. The tradition of high...
Journal Article
positions (2001) 9 (1): 29–68.
Published: 01 February 2001
... (minjian) enjoy equal positions as the
classics and literary works.” Since all past material was treated equally as
raw material for historical study, the scope of source material and historical
study was thus broadened. In Hu Shi’s own words...
Journal Article
positions (2021) 29 (2): 373–398.
Published: 01 May 2021
... the preface as an act of narration, this article scrutinizes textual choices such as the confusing word dianying 电影 (film) and the outcry metaphor. The emergence of both modern vernacular literature and Lu Xun as a major literary figure, it is argued, should be historicized in a broader transnational media...
Journal Article
positions (2023) 31 (2): 451–471.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Zhang
Huiyu; Federico Picerni Abstract Over the past few years, China's cultural landscape has seen the emergence of several authors from among its migrant laborers, or “new workers.” Fan Yusu and Xu Lizhi are the most representative. Their literary production, which draws on their personal...
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positions (1994) 2 (2): 294–317.
Published: 01 May 1994
.... Masterworks of Vietnamese
classical literature such as “The Tale of Kieu” and “Luc Van Tien” are
examples of this form.”
French colonial domination fundamentally altered Vietnamese literary
history in at least two ways...
Journal Article
positions (2010) 18 (1): 171–197.
Published: 01 February 2010
...˘nggi, Kim T’aejun,
and Yi Hu˘isu˘ng about Korean classical literature and literary tradition.47
The assumption of the articles was that by carrying on cultural traditions
of Korea, Korean society could maintain its unique culture in the face...
Journal Article
positions (2006) 14 (1): 193–218.
Published: 01 February 2006
...Peter Button Duke University Press 2006 Aesthetics, Dialectics, and Desire in Yang Mo’s Song of Youth
Peter Button
No doubt, one of the numerous difficulties that remain in our account of
the socialist realist literary canon in China lies in our...
Journal Article
positions (2002) 10 (2): 431–469.
Published: 01 May 2002
..., or “following the brush” essays.
A classical literary form, the zuihitsu seemed appropriate for his “return to
the classics” (koten kaiki) period, when he is supposed to have abandoned his
youthfulinterestincrimefiction,stageplays,cinema...
Journal Article
Nakagami Kenji's Mystic Writing Pad; Or, Tracing Origins, Tales of the Snake, and the Land as Matrix
positions (1995) 3 (1): 224–254.
Published: 01 February 1995
... celebrated in the literary canon. Thus the critic
Karatani KGjin has described the premodern landscapes of the classical
texts as “a weave of language” which is given signification by poetry.2 Land-
scape, as described in medieval travel...
Journal Article
positions (2000) 8 (2): 465–497.
Published: 01 May 2000
...Tomiko Yoda 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Literary History against the National Frame, or Gender
and the Emergence of Heian Kana Writing
Tomiko Yoda
A number of narrative tales and diaries written during the mid-Heian period
are counted among...
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