The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China / by Mei Chun.
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TextSeries: Sinica Leidensia ; 101.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
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- 9789004195936
- 9004195939
- Shui hu zhuan
- Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582. Xi you ji
- Shui hu zhuan
- Xi you ji (Wu, Cheng'en)
- Chinese fiction -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- History and criticism
- Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism
- Theater in literature
- Roman chinois -- 1260-1368 (Dynastie des Yuan) -- Histoire et critique
- Roman chinois -- 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming) -- Histoire et critique
- Théâtre dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General
- Chinese fiction
- Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty
- Theater in literature
- Yuan Dynasty (China)
- 1260-1644
- 895.1/34809 22
- PL2432.5 .M45 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
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