The Breath of My Life: Constructing the Self in Chen Ran’s A Private Life

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Notes

¹ English translation published 2004.

² “Jurij Tynjanov probably deserves the credit for this concept, but it is best known to us through a lecture of Roman Jakobson’s, dating from 1935. I quote from the 1971 English translation: ‘The dominant may be defined as the focusing component of a work of art: it rules, determines, and transforms the remaining components’” (McHale 6).