The Rhetoric of Chin P'ing Mei / Katherine Carlitz.
Chin p'ing mei, the late Ming dynasty novel, combines rich sensuous detail with an interweaving of reality and fantasy to create a telling portrait of the dynasty's decline. In addition to the explicit sexual detail, the novel also contains a stern Confucian message about the retribution t...
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Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1986. ©1986. |
Year of Publication: | 1986 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource x, 239 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- The literary world of Chin p'ing mei
- The structure and themes of Chin p'ing mei
- Religion in Chin p'ing mei
- Verbal texture and narrative structure
- Drama and song : the language of convention
- Drama and song : the conventions undermined
- The conclusion of Chin p'ing mei.