Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Fictions of Enlightenment : Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber / Qiancheng Li.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2004Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780824844547
Subject(s): Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 Setting the Terms -- CHAPTER 2 Soteriological Patterns, Narrative Structures -- CHAPTER 3 The Journey -- CHAPTER 4 The Dream -- CHAPTER 5 The "Red Chamber59 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature—Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber—arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahāyāna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780824844547

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Conventions -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 Setting the Terms -- CHAPTER 2 Soteriological Patterns, Narrative Structures -- CHAPTER 3 The Journey -- CHAPTER 4 The Dream -- CHAPTER 5 The "Red Chamber59 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature—Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber—arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahāyāna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2024)