Chinese Dreams: Pound, Brecht, Tel Quel

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Index 215 A-effect/alienation effect. See under Brecht, Bertolt an sich. See under Eliot, T. S. asparagus, 186 Baker, Edward, 21, 22, 58 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 109 Barthes, Roland, xi, 64, 99, 109, 110, 117, 157, 201n. 19 on China, 131, 133–34, 136, 142–44, 146, 147, 153–56, 160, 176, 178, 202n. 24, 25 on Japan (Empire of Signs), 125–27, 132–34, 148, 182, 183 on Mother Courage, 102 Batchelor, Robert, 205n. 9 Baudrillard, Jean, 201n. 21 “Beautiful Toilet, The,” 13–20 double characters and poetic repetition in, 16, 17, 36 translations compared, 13, 14, 15–17, 18, 22, 25 Befremdung, 80–88, 99, 182. See also Verfremdungseffekt Benjamin, Walter, 179 Berg-Pan, Renata, 55, 64, 67, 148, 196n. 17 on the A-effect in Chinese theater, 81–82, 97 on Brecht’s “af‹nity” with Chinese, 61, 72–73, 90–91 Bock, D. Stephan, 196n. 12, 199n. 42 Bo Juyi, 59, 71, 195n. 5 Borges, Jorge Luis, 201n. 21 Brecht, Bertolt A-effect/alienation effect, x, 75, 76–88, 99–100, 148, 182, 184, 188 (see also Verfremdungseffekt) collective authorship, 89–92, 198n. 29 compared to Pound, 55, 60–66, 73–75, 89, 101 discourse of Brecht and China, 54, 61, 62, 64, 66, 71, 86–89, 93–94, 101, 148, 195n. 10 locales, 94–96 relation to China, 53, 54, 71, 85 (see also Waley, Arthur) works Das Wort poems, 56, 58 Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan, 92–100, 177, 182, 198n. 34 “Die große Decke,” 58 “Die hö›ichen Chinesen” (“The Polite Chinese”), 71 “Frühling 1938,” 69–70 Good Person of Szechwan, The (see Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan) Mother Courage, 101–2, 148 “On the theater of the Chinese,” 79 “Sechs chinesische Gedichte,” 56 “Verfremdungseffekt in der chinesischen Schauspielkunst,” x, 75–88 Bridgewater, Patrick, 67, 196n. 15 Brooker, Peter, 75 Bush, Christopher, 186, 205n. 9 Bush, Ronald, 39 Cathay. See under Pound, Ezra, works Chapple, Anne, 24, 25 Cheadle, Mary Paterson, 45 Chen, Xiaomei, 10–12, 192n. 26 China, 9, 43, 86, 122, 134, 139, 149 Brecht’s China, 53, 55, 56, 74, 75, 88, 92, 95, 102, 177, 184 compared to Chicago, 95–96 exoticism of, 56, 63, 65–66, 90, 93–94, 104, 173 and hysteria, 102, 133–35, 184, 202n. 26 in›uence on Imagism, 25, 27, 28, 40 on Brecht, 67, 69, 71, 73 , 83, 85, 87–88, 96, 148 on modernism, 3, 37, 38, 39, 40, 52, 112, 177–78, 187, 195n. 10 “invention” of (see under Pound, Ezra) Pound’s China, 53, 55, 66–67, 74, 115, 123, 130, 177, 184 “real” China, 34, 46, 123 stereotype of, viii, 93–94, 144 Tel quel’s China, 53, 116, 123, 126, 129, 130, 148, 161, 167, 182, 184 Western fascination with, vii–viii, 143–44 Chinese dreams. See under dreams, dreaming Chinese language, 9, 26, 32, 118, 120, 166, 204n. 8 as “pregrammatical,” 69 relationship to the referent, 48, 113 the unconscious in, 128 (see also psychoanalysis ) visual quality of, 30, 31, 36, 47, 48, 66, 69, 146 vs. Western alphabetic representation , 30, 113 Chineseness, 12, 24, 25, 27, 42, 46, 52, 151, 167, 168, 180, 186, 188, 202n. 22 and the A-effect, 86 and authenticity, 51, 181, 184 and Brecht, 54, 66, 70, 85, 90 Cathay’s, 37, 49, 50, 181 in Chinese theater, 80, 88 in Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan, 94, 97–100 of Li Po, 33, 123 property of the West, 171 Chinese Peking Opera, vi, 75, 80, 81, 97, 197n. 20 Chinese theater. See under theater Chow, Rey, vii, 122, 127, 164, 189n. 5, 202n. 38, 205n. 12. critique of Kristeva, 106–8, 112, 141–42, 145 M. Butter›y, discussion of, xiii–xiv, 205n. 12 Cohen, Paul, 204n. 3 Confucius/Confucianism, 10, 29, 41, 43, 44, 54, 73, 123, 181, 193n. 31 Cookson, William, 43, 44, 193n. 29 Cultural Revolution, Chinese, 110, 112, 115, 118–19, 127, 137, 147, 148, 159–60, 177 Dasenbrock, Reed Way, 193n. 31 de Beauvoir, Simone, 203n. 39 Debord, Guy, 201n. 21 Dembo, L. S., 209n. 31 Derrida, Jacques, 64, 109, 194n. 37 dreams, dreaming, 155, 169, 172, 182, 183, 205n. 12 Chinese dream, ix, xiv, 108, 115, 121, 125, 142, 171, 173, 175, 176, 180, 181, 183, 186–87, 188, 189n. 3 dreamed China, xii, 88, 115, 122, 124–25, 128, 129, 142, 179 Index 216 dream logic and critique, xiii...