{"product_id":"ideology-and-form-in-yan-lianke","title":"Ideology And Form In Yan Lianke","description":"\u003cp\u003eXie analyzes three novels by the international award-winning Chinese writer Yan Lianke and investigates how his signature “mythorealist” form produces textual meanings that subvert the totalizing reality prescribed by literary realism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe term mythorealism, which Yan coined to describe his own writing style, refers to a set of literary devices that incorporate both Chinese and Western literary elements while remaining primarily grounded in Chinese folk culture and literary tradition. In his use of mythorealism, carrying a burden of social critique that cannot allow itself to become “political,” Yan transcends the temporality and provinciality of immediate social events and transforms his potential socio-political commentaries into more diversified concerns for humanity, existential issues, and spiritual crisis. Xie identifies three modes of mythorealist narrative exemplified in Yan’s three novels: the \u003ci\u003eminjian \u003c\/i\u003e(folk) mode in \u003ci\u003eDream of Ding Village\u003c\/i\u003e, the allusive mode in \u003ci\u003eBallad, Hymn, Ode\u003c\/i\u003e, and the enigmatic mode in \u003ci\u003eThe Four Books. \u003c\/i\u003eBy positioning itself against an ambiguous articulation of social determinants of historical events that would perhaps be more straightforward in a purely realist text, each mode of mythorealism moves its narrative from the overt politicality of the subject matter to the existential riddle of negotiating an alternative reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA groundbreaking study of one of contemporary China’s most important authors that will be of great value to scholars and students of Chinese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57199893184894,"sku":"NW9781032391755","price":39.97,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781032391755.jpg?v=1778533410","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/ideology-and-form-in-yan-lianke","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}