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A review of the comparative study of Mo Yan and Faulkner in China

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 19. August 2017
Semiotica
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Abstract

Mo Yan’s multi-layered and allegorical tales were highly inspired by William Faulkner. Mo Yan’s semi-fictional Gaomi Northeast Township was often linked to William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha, and he himself was extolled by the Chinese scholars to be “China’s Faulkner.” Inside China, there have emerged a great number of comparative studies on Faulkner and Mo Yan, which are usually conducted from the perspectives of literary forms, native-soil complex, attitudes towards tradition, the influence of local culture, and so on. However, despite the strong record of research on these two writers in China, there is still room for improvement in the study, for after the initial stage of the superficial and sporadic comparison between individual works, the comparative study of Faulkner and Mo Yanis in pressing need of comprehensive and systematic research of these criticisms.

Keywords: Mo Yan; William Faulkner; comparative study

Funding statement: Supported by Research Project Fund of Shandong University at Weihai and Shandong University Postdoctoral Sustentation Fund.

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Published Online: 2017-08-19
Published in Print: 2019-03-05

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https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2016-0027
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Mo Yan; William Faulkner; comparative study

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  1. Frontmatter
  2. Research Articles
  3. Spatializing food: Signs, spaces, and the legal (dis-)composition of what we eat
  4. A review of the comparative study of Mo Yan and Faulkner in China
  5. Expounding knowledge through explanations: Generic types and rhetorical-relational patterns
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  10. Faith in fakes: Secrets, lies, and conspiracies in Umberto Eco’s writings
  11. The semiotics of breast cancer: Signs, symptoms, and sales
  12. Finite semiotics: Recovery functions, semioformation, and the hyperreal
  13. The urgency of engaging with oddities and ambiguities: Reciprocity and cooperation visited as semio-aesthetic notions in bridging nature and culture
  14. Concepts of narrative, founding violence, and multiculturalism in the Americas: Greimas, Girard, and Kymlicka
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