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The Invention of Li Yu / Patrick Hanan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hanan, Patrick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- HISTORY / General.
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.
- Li, Yü, 1611-1680? -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Local Subjects:
- HISTORY / General.
- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese.
- Li, Yü, 1611-1680? -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was also an epicure, an inventor, a pundit, and a designer of houses and gardens. He was an exceptional figure in Chinese culture for two reasons: his disregard of the authority of tradition, and his dedication to the cause of comedy. Hanan uses the term "invention" in his title in several ways: Li Yu's invention of himself, his public image-his originality and inventiveness in a multitude of fields and the literary products of his inventiveness. With expert and entertaining translations Hanan explores the key features of Li Yu's work, summarizing, describing, and "ing extensively to convey Li's virtuosity, his unconventionality, his irreverence, his ribaldry. This is a splendid introduction to the art and persona of a Chinese master of style and ingenuity.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Making a Living
- 2. Creating a Self
- 3. The Necessity of Invention
- 4. The Primacy of Pleasure
- 5 Paradoxical Farceur
- 6. Comic Erotiker
- 7. Virtuoso of Fine Stitching
- 8. Specialist in Idle Pursuits
- Notes
- Editions of Independent Words (Yijia Yan)
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- ISBN:
- 0-674-33227-X
- OCLC:
- 1013944921
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