Out of the margins : the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction /
The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the sixteenth century. The tale of one hundred and eight bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Chinese Romanization
- Introduction
- 1. Vernacularization before Shuihu zhuan
- 2. Told or Written: That is the Question
- 3. The Narrative Pattern: The Uniform versus the Multiform
- 4. From Voice to Text: The Orality-Writing Dynamic
- 5. The Engine of Narrative Making: Audience, Storytellers, and Shuhui xiansheng
- 6. Literary Vernacular and Novelistic Discourse
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.