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Shifting Stories : History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China / Sarah M. Allen.
LIBRA GR335 .A44 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Sarah M., 1969- author.
- Series:
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 95.
- Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 95
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk literature, Chinese--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Chinese.
- Tales--China--History and criticism.
- Tales.
- Chinese literature--Tang dynasty, 618-907--History and criticism.
- Chinese literature.
- Gossip--China--History--To 1500.
- Gossip.
- Occultism in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--To 1500.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative--China.
- Discourse analysis, Narrative.
- China--History--Tang dynasty, 618-907.
- China.
- China--Social life and customs--221 B.C.-960 A.D.
- Manners and customs.
- Tang Dynasty (China).
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 311 pages ; 24 cm.
- Distribution:
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. The author focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult"--Provided by the publisher.
- Contents:
- Note on texts and editions
- Introduction
- Telling stories, writing tales
- Filling the gaps : tales on and against history
- Strange encounters : exploring a formula
- Strange encounters : contrivance and wit
- Rewritings : authorship and the authority of the written text
- Toward the closing of texts : the anthology Yiwen ji
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Major tales and tale collections referenced in the text.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674417205
- 0674417208
- OCLC:
- 875999983
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