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Appropriation and Representation Feng Menglong and the Chinese Vernacular Story / Shuhui Yang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yang, Shuhui.
- Series:
- Michigan monographs in Chinese studies ; no. 79.
- Michigan monographs in Chinese studies, 1081-9053 ; v. 79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Xing shi heng yan.
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Jing shi tong yan.
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Yu shi ming yan.
- Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646--Criticism and interpretation.
- Women in literature.
- Folk literature, Chinese--History and criticism.
- Folk literature, Chinese.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 187 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998.
- Summary:
- Feng Menglong (1574-1646) was recognized as the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time. He is known today for compiling three famous collections of vernacular short stories, each containing forty stories, collectively known as Sanyan. Appropriation and Representation adapts concepts of ventriloquism and dialogism from Bakhtin and Holquist to explore Feng's methods of selecting source materials. Shuhui Yang develops a model of development in which Feng's approach to selecting and working with his source materials becomes clear. More broadly, Appropriation and Representation locates Feng Menglong's Sanyan in the cultural milieu of the late Ming, including the archaist movement in literature, literati marginality and anxieties, the subversive use of folk works, and the meiren xiangcao tradition-appropriating a female identity to express male frustration. Against this background, a rationale emerges for Feng's choice to elevate and promote the vernacular story while stepping back form an overt authorial role.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-176) and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780892641253
- 0892641258
- OCLC:
- 1184507973
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.19263
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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