“Irving Babbitt and the literary movements in Republican China” (Publication, 1973)
Year
1973
Text
Hou, Chien. Irving Babbitt and the literary movements in Republican China. In : Tamkang review, vol. 4, no 1 (1973). (Babb27)
Type
Publication
Mentioned People (1)
Babbitt, Irving
(Dayton, Ohio 1865-1933 Cambridge, Mass.) : Professor of French Literature, Harvard University, Literaturkritiker, Philosoph
Subjects
Literature : China
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Periods : China : Republic (1912-1949)
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Philosophy : United States of America
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References / Sources
Chronology Entries (2)
| # | Year | Text | Linked Data |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1921-1929 | Guo Moruo, Yu Dafu, Tian Han, Zhang Ziping und andere gründen die Chuang zao she = Chuang zuo she (Creation Society) in Tokyo."Art for art's sake" upon smatterings of Goethe, Whitman, Pater and Wilde. | |
| 2 | 1924 |
Xu, Zhimo. Xin yue de tai du. In : Xin yue ; vol. 1, no 1 (1928). [The attitude of the Crescent Moon]. 新月的態度 It lamented the anarchic state of thought then obtaining as exhibited in the current crop of 1. Sentimentalists, 2. Decadents, 3. Esthetes, 4. Utilitarians, 5. Didacticists, 6. Polemicists, 7. Radicals, 8. Preciocists, 9. Pornographers, 10. Enthusiasts, 11. Peddlers, 12. Sloganists, 13. Ismists. Out of the thirteen, at leas more than half could be identified with the leftists. On the otherhand, it espoused the ideals of 'sanity and dignity' as antidotes to those deleterious trends and advised that 'we must view life as a whole'. The ideals conformed to Irving Babbitt's idea of the function of literature as a formative agent, and the advice smacked of Matthew Arnold. |
Cited by (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 2000- | Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich | Organisation / AOI |
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