Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China : Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren


Jing. Shen
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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Lanham : : Lexington Books, , 2010.
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1 online resource (335 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Part I: Contexts; 1: Introduction; 2: Playwrights and Their Circles; 3: History and Criticism of Traditional Chinese Theater; Part II: The Appropriation and Conversion of Chuanqi Fiction in Ming Plays; 4: Huo Xiaoyu zhuan in Zichai ji; 5: Liushi zhuan in Yuhe ji; Part III: Textual Constructions of (Gendered) Subjectivities; 6: The Poetic Constructions of (Gendered) Identities in Lü mudan; 7: An Ironic Perspective on Love Poeticized in Fengzheng wu; Part IV: Plays-Within-Plays; 8: Bimuyu; 9: Taohua shan. - ConclusionAppendix: Plot Summaries; Bibliography; Index. - As the first full-length English language survey of China's rich and sophisticated chuanqi drama, Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China offers detailed analyses of six canonical plays in the broad socio-historical context of late imperial China, supported by the application of both traditional and modern critical theories. Portraying the playwrights as creative readers of their cultural heritage, this study examines their plays as the products of their attachment to traditions and pursuit of novelty to surpass traditions.
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073913857X. - 9780739138571

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