A media genealogy of literary fame in modern China : paper, stage, screen, and sphere
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Zooming in on the radical transformations of literary interface in the shift from print to digital media ecologies, A Media Genealogy of Literary Fame in Modern China: Paper, Stage, Screen, and Sphere analyzes an assemblage of historically contingent material artifacts, networks, and processes that afford and shape the production of literary fame in 20th-and 21st-century China. Drawing on critical lines of thinking regarding the materialities of communication, I explore the nonhuman bases and media forms where the authorial texts, images, and voices appear, and reveal how the whereabouts of authorial presences facilitate or scandalize the fame of particular authors. Through close examinations of paratextual extensions, performative imitations, screen interactions, and digital serialization in relation to the spreadable texts by four reputed Chinese authors, my dissertation argues that the material means, delivery devices, and intermediary operations not only underpin the making of literary fame in the first place, but also shape the larger aesthetic, political, and social value the Chinese mass audience ascribe to famed authorship against specific historical currents. Among the notable authors I analyze are the self-proclaimed genius Eileen Chang, the Communist "model" writer Zhao Shuli, the cynical celebrity author Han Han, and the industrious serial storyteller Tangjia sanshao. This study has implications for not only the field of modern Chinese literature and culture, but also for sociological and anthropological studies of literary celebrity and communication media.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Yang, Renren |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Degree supervisor | Wang, Ban, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich |
| Thesis advisor | Wang, Ban, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Lee, Haiyan |
| Thesis advisor | Phelan, Peggy |
| Degree committee member | Lee, Haiyan |
| Degree committee member | Phelan, Peggy |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Renren Yang. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- © 2018 by Renren Yang
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