The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies. Ed. Neil Lazarus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xvi + 301 pp.  45/$75 (hardback);  17.99/$27.99 (paperback). ISBN 0-521-82694-2/53418-6

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-460
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Cambridge University

Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and Gender in China. By Kam Louie. [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. 239 pp. ISBN 0-521-80621-6.]

2003 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 832-834
Author(s):  
Eugenia Lean
Keyword(s):  
Literary Studies ◽  
Theoretical Underpinning ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Chinese Masculinity ◽  
And Gender

In his introduction to Theorising Chinese Masculinity, Kam Louie rightly points out that while a great deal has been written on the topic of femininity in China, the study of masculinity remains remarkably untouched. A few historical and literary studies have started to appear, but next to nothing has been done to “systematically conceptualize the theoretical underpinning of Chinese masculinities in general terms” (p. 3).

Charles Henry Gifford 1913–2003

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Ricks
Keyword(s):  
Russian Literature ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Boris Pasternak ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
General Editor ◽  
Christ Church ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

Charles Henry Gifford (1913–2003), a Fellow of the British Academy, was a scholar-critic whose death at the age of ninety brought home what true piety is, in contemplation of his supple stamina and of his own discriminating piety towards the literary geniuses whose presences he owned: Leo Tolstoy and George Seferis, Boris Pasternak and Samuel Johnson, Dante and T. S. Eliot. He was a teacher for thirty years at the University of Bristol, a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, as essayist for Grand Street, and general editor (for Cambridge University Press) of the Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature. Educated at Harrow and then at Christ Church, Oxford, Gifford gained his BA in 1936, securing those foundations in Classics that were once held to be indispensable to all humane literary studies. Though he changed his mind as to whether he was cut out to be a poet, he never dispensed with what underpinned his love of poetry, the trained analytical and synthesising powers that his study of classical literature had helped to establish within him.

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