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

Informationen zum Autor Jing Shen is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Prologue Part 2 Part I: Contexts Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Playwrights and Their Circles Chapter 5 Chapter 3: History and Criticism of Traditional Chinese Theater Part 6 Part II: The Appropriation and Conversion of Chuanqi Fiction in Ming Plays Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Huo Xiaoyu zhuan in Zichai ji Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Liushi zhuan in Yuhe ji Part 9 Part III: Textual Constructions of (Gendered) Subjectivities Chapter 10 Chapter 6: The Poetic Constructions of (Gendered) Identities in Lü mudan Chapter 11 Chapter 7: An Ironic Perspective on Love Poeticized in Fengzheng wu Part 12 Part IV: Plays-Within-Plays Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Bimuyu Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Taohua shan Chapter 15 Final Conclusions 16 Appendix: Plot Summaries

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jing Shen
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780739138571
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-3857-1
• Pages: 443
• Thèmes: Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development; Challenges Facing Chinese Political Development
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Chinese, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, asian culture;asian studies