second exegesis proposal for phd

Poetics and Politics of Memory: An Outsider’s Discourse

Part 1: Introduction (1)

Part 2: Creating the authorial space as an Outsider (6)

(i) Pu Songling and the characters of Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio as outsiders

(ii) The author and the characters of A Strange Tale From A Baisha Studio as outsiders

(iii) The author’s ‘outsider writing’ of the main character, Yue, in A Strange Tale From A Baisha Studio: can a White man write as a Chinese woman … does anyone care?

Part 3: Creating the memory space as Poetics and Politics (33)

(i) The Poetics: Memory in literature - A memory’s discourse (homage to Barthes)

... introduction ... the arguement ... pleasure ... nostalgia ... coincidence ... repitition ... physical ... arbitrariness ... insignificance ... degree ... banishment ... memorial ... idolatry ... the author ... pu songling ... yue ... rong ... shen ... the lotus fragrance ... the party ... the outsider ... the strange  ... fox-spirits ... ghosts ... memory ... epiphany ... trust ... truth ... proust ... flaubert ... wordsworth ... barnes ... woolf ... joyce ... plato ... time ... mimesis ... repressed ... reimagined ... decoding ... encoding ... politics ... poetics ... love ... bildungsroman ... china' memory ... the correspondents ... embedding in china ... writing memory ... framing ... narratology ... the poetics of space ... the politics of space

(ii) The Politics: Memory in A Strange Tale From A Baisha Studio – An Outsider’s discourse

Part 4: Conclusion (65)

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