title: THE NORMAL AND THE EXCEPTIONAL: A COMPARISON OF PU SONGLING’S AND MO YAN’S SURREAL WORLDS
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metadata.value: Schiele, Alexandre
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-03-15T09:48:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-03-15T09:48:23Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.10
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35692
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: From a comparison of the surreal worlds of Pu Songling and Mo Yan in their
  respective auctorial context, this paper argues that although Pu Songling’s short stories
  integrate surreal elements, contrary to the accepted typology of genres, they fall into
  realistic and not speculative fiction because the worldview of Imperial China in which
  he lived not only accepted the supernatural as real, but as foundational to the traditional
  order. By comparison, Mo Yan’s supernatural stories partly fall within supernatural
  literature, because post-1949 China espoused a scientific worldview which banishes
  the supernatural. On a second level, however, both Pu Songling’s and Mo Yan’s surreal
  fictions are political satires of their times. Yet, even on this point they diverge. While Pu
  Songling articulates the social and political criticism of his present to surreal elements,
  Mo Yan casts the surreal as a stand-in for the exceptional situations of his recent past
  which are the object of his criticisms.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Pu Songling
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Mo Yan
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Supernatural
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Surreal
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Normal
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Exceptional
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: THE NORMAL AND THE EXCEPTIONAL: A COMPARISON OF PU SONGLING’S AND MO YAN’S SURREAL WORLDS
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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