Out of the Margins : : The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction / / Liangyan Ge.
The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared in print in the sixteenth century. The tale of one hundred and eight bandit heroes evolved from a long oral tradition; in its novelized form, it played a pivotal role in the rise of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2001] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2001 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Chinese Romanization
- Introduction
- 1. Vernacularization before Shuihu zhuan
- 2. Told or Written: That is the Question
- 3. The Narrative Pattern: The Uniform versus the Multiform
- 4. From Voice to Text: The Orality-Writing Dynamic
- 5. The Engine of Narrative Making: Audience, Storytellers, and Shuhui xiansheng
- 6. Literary Vernacular and Novelistic Discourse
- Notes
- Glossary
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author