Chinese narrative : critical and theoretical essays / Andrew H. Plaks, editor ; with a foreword by Cyril Birch, contributors, Kenneth J. DeWoskin [and eleven others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Plaks, Andrew H., 1945- editor.

DeWoskin, Kenneth J., contributor.

Conference Name:

Princeton Conference on Chinese Narrative Theory (1974 : Princeton University), issuing body.

Series:

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese fiction--History and criticism--Congresses.

Chinese fiction.

Narration (Rhetoric)--Congresses.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 pages).

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1977]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword / Birch, Cyril

I. Early Historical and Fictional Narrative

Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-Chuan as Example / Wang, John C.Y.

The Six Dynasties Chih-Kuai and the Birth of Fiction / Dewoskin, Kenneth J.

A Taste For Apricots: Approaches to Chinese Fiction / Eoyang, Eugene

II. Ming and Early Ch'ing Fiction

Narrative Patterns in San-Kuo and Shui-Hu / Li, Peter

The Nature of Ling Meng-Ch'u's Fiction / Hanan, Patrick

Chang Chu-P'o's Commentary on the Chinfing Mei / Roy, David T.

Sui Γang Yen-I and the Aesthetics of the Seventeenth-Century Suchou Elite / Hegel, Robert G.

III. Middle and Late Ch'ing Fiction

Allegory in Hsi-Yu Chi and Hung-Loumeng / Plaks, Andrew H.

Point of View, Norms, and Structure: Hung-Lou Meng and Lyrical Fiction / Kam-Ming, Wong

Lyricvisionin Chinese Narrative Tradition: A Reading of Hung-Loumeng and Ju-Lin Wai-Shih / Kao, Yu-Kung

Ritual and Narrative Structure Inju-Lin Wai-Shih / Lin, Shuen-Fu

The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-Hua Yuan / Hsia, C.T.

IV. Chinese Narrative Theory

Towards a Critical Theory of Chinese Narrative / Plaks, Andrew H.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

"Revisions or rewritings of papers originally presented at the Princeton Conference on Chinese Narrative Theory held at Princeton University on January 21 and 22, 1974."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691609928

0691609926

9780691638119

069163811X

9781400856466

1400856469

OCLC:

889250775