Strange writing : anomaly accounts in early medieval China /

Between the Han dynasty, founded in 206 B.C.E., and the Sui, which ended in 618 C.E., Chinese authors wrote many thousands of short textual items, each of which narrated or described some phenomenon deemed "strange." Most items told of encounters between humans and various denizens of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campany, Robert Ford, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Chino
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996.
Series:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction, Chinese > History and criticism.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature
Fantasy fiction, Chinese
Chinesisch
Geschichte
Fantastische Literatur
Littérature fantastique chinoise.
Roman fantastique chinois.
Roman fantastique chinois > Histoire et critique.
Chinesisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Anomaly and Cosmography in Comparative Perspective
  • 2. Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China: Genre and Texts
  • 3. Justifying the Strange: The Warrant for the Genre of Anomaly Accounts
  • 4. The Making of the Texts: Who, How, Why
  • 5. The Description and Narration of Anomaly: Cosmographic Poetics
  • 6. Modes of Anomaly: Cosmographic Logic
  • 7. Strange Persuasions: Cosmographic Rhetoric
  • 8. Reciprocity across Boundaries: Cosmographic Ethics.

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