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0585488940

(Number (ISBN

0824863828

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9780585488943

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9780824863821

Erroneous ISBN

0824823702

Erroneous ISBN

9780824823702

Number

b783537

Title Proper

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General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the rise of Chinese vernacular fiction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Liangyan Ge.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Honolulu :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of Hawai'i Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2001.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (ix, 293 pages)

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-282) and index.

Text of Note

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 Chinese vernacular fiction, which flourished during the late Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) periods. Liangyan Ge's multidimensional study considers the evolution of Water Margin and the rise of vernacular fiction against the background of the vernacularization of premodern Chinese literature as a whole. This gradual and arduous process, as the book convincingly shows, was driven by sustained contact and interaction between written culture and popular orality. Ge examines the stylistic and linguistic features of the novel against those of other works of early Chinese vernacular literature (stories, in particular), revealing an accretion of features typical of different historical periods and a prolonged and cumulative process of textualization. In addition to providing a meticulous philological study, his work offers a new reading of the novel that interprets some of its salient characteristics in terms of the interplay between audience, storytellers, and men of letters associated with popular orality.

Text of Note

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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JSTOR

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22573/ctt62v3kn

Title

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International Standard Book Number

0824823702

Shui hu zhuan.

Shui hu zhuan.

Asian / Chinese.

East Asian Languages & Literatures.

Languages & Literatures.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Asian-- Chinese.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- Asian-- General.

LITERARY CRITICISM.

LIT-- 008000

LIT008010

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Edition

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Book number

Ge, Liangyan.

Date of Transaction

20201206215158.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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