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The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China / by Mei Chun.
Van Pelt Library PL2432.5 .M45 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mei, Chun, 1976-
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ; 101.
- Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; 101
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese fiction--Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368--History and criticism.
- Chinese fiction.
- Chinese fiction--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--History and criticism.
- Theater in literature.
- Shui hu zhuan.
- Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582. Xi you ji.
- Wu, Cheng'en.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Xi in early modern context. Theatrum mundi: the theatrical, the playful, the ephemeral; the structuring of Xi in illustrations and a prologue theatrical
- Part II. Playful theatricals: Shuihu zhuan and Xiyou ji. Staging, spectacles, and acts of recognition; Staging, mimicry, and acts of appropriation; Acting, quren, and the authenticity of incongruity; Acting, jiaren, and the artifice of congruity; Viewing: perceptive and fleshly eyes
- Part III. Didactic theater versus playful theatricals: tropes of theater in Zhishang chuntai and Wusheng xi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004191662
- 9004191666
- OCLC:
- 682903107
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