Call for Papers for the 14th EATS Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, 2-4 March 2017. The Conferenc... more Call for Papers for the 14th EATS Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, 2-4 March 2017. The Conference theme is "Translating Taiwan: 1947-1987-2017". Submission deadline for regular panels is 31 July 2016; MA panels is 31 October 2016.
Writers of New Taiwanese literature used a variety of literary devices in the face of the histori... more Writers of New Taiwanese literature used a variety of literary devices in the face of the historical conditions they were living in. Willing to expose the injustice of Japanese occupation, the dark aspects of traditional society still conditioning people's lives, and the economic inequality of a society struggling toward modernity under colonial rule, writers often adopted a realistic mode in their fiction. But even though realism was the dominant mode, depending on the author's stylistic character and on the different degree of censorship imposed by the colonial government in different times, irony and satire were also used in fiction, as can be seen in the writings of Zhu Dianren, Cai Qiutong, and Wu Zhuoliu, among others. This paper is based on the analysis of three ironic or satiric pieces of fiction ("Ideal Village" by Cai Qiutong, "Autumn Letter" by Zhu Dianren, and "The Doctor's Mother" by Wu Zhuoliu), and aims to interpret the use of irony and satire in these works. Stress will be placed on the possibility of interpreting these literary modes not only in terms of their resistance to the colonizers, as has been the case so far, but also in relation to the mature literary techniques they demonstrate, which reveal the aesthetic view of their authors. In this way, a new evaluation of this corpus of fiction is presented.
Call for Papers for the 14th EATS Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, 2-4 March 2017. The Conferenc... more Call for Papers for the 14th EATS Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, 2-4 March 2017. The Conference theme is "Translating Taiwan: 1947-1987-2017". Submission deadline for regular panels is 31 July 2016; MA panels is 31 October 2016.
Writers of New Taiwanese literature used a variety of literary devices in the face of the histori... more Writers of New Taiwanese literature used a variety of literary devices in the face of the historical conditions they were living in. Willing to expose the injustice of Japanese occupation, the dark aspects of traditional society still conditioning people's lives, and the economic inequality of a society struggling toward modernity under colonial rule, writers often adopted a realistic mode in their fiction. But even though realism was the dominant mode, depending on the author's stylistic character and on the different degree of censorship imposed by the colonial government in different times, irony and satire were also used in fiction, as can be seen in the writings of Zhu Dianren, Cai Qiutong, and Wu Zhuoliu, among others. This paper is based on the analysis of three ironic or satiric pieces of fiction ("Ideal Village" by Cai Qiutong, "Autumn Letter" by Zhu Dianren, and "The Doctor's Mother" by Wu Zhuoliu), and aims to interpret the use of irony and satire in these works. Stress will be placed on the possibility of interpreting these literary modes not only in terms of their resistance to the colonizers, as has been the case so far, but also in relation to the mature literary techniques they demonstrate, which reveal the aesthetic view of their authors. In this way, a new evaluation of this corpus of fiction is presented.
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