Transforming Gender and Emotion The Butterfly Lovers Story in China and Korea / Sookja Cho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cho, Sookja, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Often called China's "Romeo and Juliet", the story of the Butterfly Lovers (the tale of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, or the Liang-Zhu story) is one of the most famous folk stories in traditional China. With its origins dating back to the fourth century, it has spread and evolved across genres, country, religion, and culture. Transforming Gender and Emotion examines how this story has successfully traveled and multiplied over the centuries, and elucidates what this phenomenon tells us about the story, the local peoples and cultures it represents and the cultural-literary relationship between China and Korea in premodern times. In particular, the book aims to examine the transmission and survivability of its transgressive elements, challenging social, gender, and emotional norms.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Front list Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 100856

ISBN:

9780472900855