New Perspectives on Contemporary Chinese Poetry

“Homage to the Ruins” 向•–‘— and probes and criticizes the drifting way of life, the anxiety it produces and how it leads ultimat ...

The turbulent waters are gone The river gradually grows colder Leaves fall Autumn floats and sinks The water’s words Sputter on ...

To cling it is said is more toxic yet c  ̈P ̈ ̈P ̈Ä有)要 And, of course, unnecessary
– 1 ;^無)要 To sift unnecessary  1 x To b ...

Chapter Six Steward of the Ineffable: “Anxiety-Reflex” in/as the Nature Writing of Liu Kexiang (Or: Nature Writing against Acade ...

This chapter argues that, while some recourse to received academic paradigms in the study of environmental literature is inevita ...

instances of ecological destruction are myriad, none can deny the importance of written records of our vanishing experiences wit ...

Nonetheless, the nature writer’s recourse to discourse, to the language of literature, involves not only procrustean but creativ ...

from which the writing at hand would have no motivation or inspira- tion, no cause to be (or be studied). Nature writing is thus ...

interpretive conventions and instead seek new, dynamic, open-ended paradigms for analyzing nature writing, paradigms that are de ...

in some cases, the sole access to a kind of experience that is not reducible or translatable into other ways of knowing, into ot ...

through a deeply personal, anxious, and imaginative worldview. Such writing deliberately ignores boundaries—generic or other—bet ...

and acceptance of—even reverence for—the natural spaces, plants, and creatures that struggle to survive in symbiotic relationshi ...

unbreachable chasm dug by history. But watching the spectacle of this whale in its death throes, even with the intervening sever ...

imaginative narratives into an adult impetus toward social action on behalf of our shared and inhabited environment: Over the pa ...

then he shows that an outraged community can stand up to its fears of industrial ogres. This brilliant example of aesthetic perc ...

By invoking and mimetically representing this anxious condition as our relationship to the natural world, nature writing reminds ...

the general application of the generic term. The original Chinese term itself is a bit more narrowly defined; it is a relatively ...

Lacanian treatments of this linguistic issue refer to the “primordial signifier,” the “structurally necessary” limit of meaning ...

recoverable onenesswith pristine wilderness, harmony with the environ- ment, etc. This fantasy forecloses on the necessity of pr ...

environment as possible, in keeping with Wallace and Armbruster’s assertion that “Environment need not only refer to ‘natural’ o ...