The Novel in Seventeenth- Century China /
Studies China during the 17th century by looking at the nation behind the literature. Looks at traditions, innovation and the legacy of the novels.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press,
[1981]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Divisions of Chinese History by Dynastic Rule
- Conversion Table of Wade-Giles and Pinyin Systems for Romanizing Chinese
- 1. The World Behind the Novel: China in the Seventeenth Century
- 2. The Novelists' World: Tradition and Innovation
- 3. Political Realities in Fictional Garb: Past as Metaphor for the Present
- 4. Man as Responsible Being: The Individual, Social Role, and Heaven
- 5. Self as Mind or as Body: Fictional Examinations of Identity
- 6. Disaster and Renewal in an Ordered Universe
- 7. Literary Innovation and the Legacy of Seventeenth-Century Novels
- Appendix I. Literary Source Materials for Several Seventeenth-Century Novels
- Appendix II. Textual Histories of Various Seventeenth-Century Novels
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index