The Invention of Li Yu / / Patrick Hanan.
Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1988 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- 1. Making a Living
- 2. Creating a Self
- 3. The Necessity of Invention
- 4. The Primacy of Pleasure
- 5 Paradoxical Farceur
- 6. Comic Erotiker
- 7. Virtuoso of Fine Stitching
- 8. Specialist in Idle Pursuits
- Notes
- Editions of Independent Words (Yijia Yan)
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Index