English Renaissance and the Far East (eBook)

Cross-Cultural Encounters

Adele Lee (Autor)

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2017
224 Seiten
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-516-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book offers a timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan, past and present. It challenges Edward Said’s model of East/West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance by suggesting it was not so different from the increasingly Sinocentric world we currently inhabit.

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The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentric models of East-West relations and offers a radical reconceptualization of the English Renaissance, suggesting it was not so different from current developments in an increasingly Sinocentric world, and that as China, in particular, returns to a global center-stage that it last occupied pre-1800, a curious and overlooked synergy exists between the early modern and the present. Prompted by the current eastward tilt in global power, in particular towards China, Adele Lee examines cultural interactions between Britain and the Far East in both the early modern and postmodern periods. She explores how key encounters with and representations of the Far East are described in early modern writing, and demonstrates how work of that period, particularly Shakespeare, has a special power today to facilitate encounters between Britain and East Asia.Readers will find the past illuminating the present and vice versa in a book that has at its heart resonances between Renaissance and present-day cultural exchanges, and which takes a cyclical, ';long-view' of history to offer a new, innovative approach to a subject of contemporary importance.

Autor

Adele Lee is assistant professor in Early Modern Literature at Emerson College.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresIntroduction: “What’s Past is Prologue”PART ONE: RENAISSANCE ENGLANDChapter One: Decrypting Dee’s Dreams: An Elizabethan Magus and the Search for CathayChapter Two: “Dumb Shewes of (Dis)Curtesie”: England’s First Encounter with ChinaChapter Three: “Naturalised Japanners”: “Samurai William” and the English in Hirado, 1613–1623PART TWO: THE ASIAN RENAISSANCEChapter Four: (RE)MADE IN CHINA: Shakespeare in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter Five: “Sheikusupia to Nippon”: Paradox, Parody and PasticheAfterword: The Rise of East Asia and the Future of Early Modern StudiesBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Zusatzinfo: 8 Illustrations including: - 8 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: British Literature • Literary Studies • theater studies
• ISBN-10: 1-61147-516-3 / 1611475163
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61147-516-6 / 9781611475166