TY - BOOK AU - Birch,Cyril AU - Dewoskin,Kenneth J. AU - Eoyang,Eugene AU - Hanan,Patrick AU - Hegel,Robert G. AU - Hsia,C.T. AU - Kam-Ming,Wong AU - Kao,Yu-Kung AU - Li,Peter AU - Lin,Shuen-Fu AU - Plaks,Andrew H. AU - Roy,David T. AU - Wang,John C.Y. TI - Chinese Narrative: Critical and Theoretical Essays T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9780691609928 AV - PL2415 U1 - 895.1/3/009 PY - 2014///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Chinese fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric KW - bisacsh KW - Adage KW - Aesthetic Theory KW - Allegory KW - Anatomy of Criticism KW - Anecdote KW - Antithesis KW - Aphorism KW - Apologue KW - Archetype KW - Arthur Waley KW - Biography KW - Book KW - Calligraphy KW - Cao Xueqin KW - Chih KW - Chinese literature KW - Classical language KW - Confucianism KW - Confucius KW - Creative writing KW - Criticism KW - Diary of a Madman (short story) KW - Disenchantment KW - Doctrine of the Mean KW - Dream of the Red Chamber KW - Dream vision KW - E. M. Forster KW - Epic poetry KW - Erudition KW - Ezra Pound KW - Fabliau KW - Fang La KW - Fiction KW - Filial piety KW - First appearance KW - Franz Kuhn KW - Genre fiction KW - Genre KW - Good and evil KW - Guan Yu KW - Henri Bergson KW - Historical fiction KW - Historiography KW - Hu Shih KW - I Ching KW - Ian Watt KW - Ibid (short story) KW - Irony KW - Jin Ping Mei KW - Journey to the West KW - Juvenal KW - King of Wu KW - Laurence Sterne KW - Lin Yutang KW - Literary fiction KW - Literary theory KW - Literature KW - Liu Bei KW - M. H. Abrams KW - Magic square KW - Memoir KW - Mircea Eliade KW - Narration KW - Narrative history KW - Narrative thread KW - Narrative KW - Non-fiction KW - Novel KW - Novelist KW - Obscurantism KW - Philosophical language KW - Picaresque novel KW - Plato KW - Poetry KW - Political satire KW - Predestination KW - Pseudohistory KW - Quintilian KW - Regulated verse KW - Religion KW - Richard Gregg (social philosopher) KW - Robert Scholes KW - Romanticism KW - Satire KW - Scholasticism KW - Shakespearean comedy KW - Six Dynasties KW - Superiority (short story) KW - Taoism KW - The Four Books KW - The Other Hand KW - Traditional story KW - Warfare KW - Water Margin KW - Wickedness KW - Writing KW - Xuanzang KW - Yin and yang KW - Zhu Bajie KW - Zhuge Liang N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Foreword --; I. Early Historical and Fictional Narrative --; Early Chinese Narrative: The Tso-Chuan as Example --; The Six Dynasties Chih-Kuai and the Birth of Fiction --; A Taste For Apricots: Approaches to Chinese Fiction --; II. Ming and Early Ch'ing Fiction --; Narrative Patterns in San-Kuo and Shui-Hu --; The Nature of Ling Meng-Ch'u's Fiction --; Chang Chu-P'o's Commentary on the Chinfing Mei --; Sui Γang Yen-I and the Aesthetics of the Seventeenth-Century Suchou Elite --; III. Middle and Late Ch'ing Fiction --; Allegory in Hsi-Yu Chi and Hung-Loumeng --; Point of View, Norms, and Structure: Hung-Lou Meng and Lyrical Fiction --; Lyricvisionin Chinese Narrative Tradition: A Reading of Hung-Loumeng and Ju-Lin Wai-Shih --; Ritual and Narrative Structure Inju-Lin Wai-Shih --; The Scholar-Novelist and Chinese Culture: A Reappraisal of Ching-Hua Yuan --; IV. Chinese Narrative Theory --; Towards a Critical Theory of Chinese Narrative --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400856466 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400856466 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400856466/original ER -