The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China / by Mei Chun.
The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West . This study focuses on the concept of “the theatrical” to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with performa...
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| Superior document: | Sinica Leidensia, v. 101 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Sinica Leidensia ;
v. 101. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West . This study focuses on the concept of “the theatrical” to read those novels and their commentaries. Imbued with performances, playacting, spectacles, and spectatorship, the early modern theatrical novel borrowed heavily from theater to conflate the theatrical and the real, juggle theatrical roles, persons, and identities, and contest orthodoxies by challenging and appropriating sites of control and authority. This study showcases the theatrical novel’s unique position as a new form of literati self-representation in response to the destabilizing social and political forces of early modern China. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283120275 9786613120274 9004195939 |
| ISSN: | 0169-9563 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Mei Chun. |