Shifting Stories : History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China /
"Explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. The author focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and th...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Chino |
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Cambridge (Massachusetts) :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2014.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Note on texts and editions
- Introduction
- Telling stories, writing tales
- Filling the gaps : tales on and against history
- Strange encounters : exploring a formula
- Strange encounters : contrivance and wit
- Rewritings : authorship and the authority of the written text
- Toward the closing of texts : the anthology Yiwen ji
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Major tales and tale collections referenced in the text.