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The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China /

Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mei, Chun, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Sinica Leidensia ; 101.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Xi in early modern context. Theatrum mundi: the theatrical, the playful, the ephemeral; the structuring of Xi in illustrations and a prologue theatrical
  • Part II. Playful theatricals: Shuihu zhuan and Xiyou ji. Staging, spectacles, and acts of recognition; Staging, mimicry, and acts of appropriation; Acting, quren, and the authenticity of incongruity; Acting, jiaren, and the artifice of congruity; Viewing: perceptive and fleshly eyes
  • Part III. Didactic theater versus playful theatricals: tropes of theater in Zhishang chuntai and Wusheng xi.