Among the many books written on or by Salvador Dali, this is the first to give a complete, well-documented picture of his life and art. Carlos Rojas's approach to Dali is somewhere between biography, Freudian analysis, and art and literary interpretation. Dali is haunted from earliest childhood by the specter of his elder brother who died as a toddler shortly before Dali was conceived (both brothers and the father bore the same name), as he is haunted by the devouring phantom of his mother, that praying mantis on whose portrait he would like to spit. Dali is seen as endlessly struggling to...
Among the many books written on or by Salvador Dali, this is the first to give a complete, well-documented picture of his life and art. Carlos Roja...
Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by the range of authors treated, including Yang Chichang, who studied Japanese literature in Tokyo in the early 1930s and wrote all of his own poetry...
Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twen...
Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The diversity of Taiwan literature is signaled by the range of authors treated, including Yang Chichang, who studied Japanese literature in Tokyo in the early 1930s and wrote all of his own poetry...
Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twen...
A study of visuality in early modern and modern China, focusing less on imagery, and more on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts.
A study of visuality in early modern and modern China, focusing less on imagery, and more on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deplo...
The collapse of China's Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shifts in the understanding of society, the individual, as well as the cultural matrix that mediates between them. In Homesickness, Carlos Rojas examines an array of Chinese literary and cinematic tropes of illness, arguing that these works approach sickness not solely as a symptom of dysfunction but more importantly as a key to its potential solution.
Rojas focuses on a condition he...
The collapse of China's Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these para...
