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Author Mei, Chun, 1976-

Title The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China / by Mei Chun
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 277 pages) : illustrations
Series Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; 101
Sinica Leidensia ; 101
Contents Introduction -- Part I. Xi in early modern context. Theatrum mundi: the theatrical, the playful, the ephemeral; the structuring of Xi in illustrations and a prologue theatrical -- Part II. Playful theatricals: Shuihu zhuan and Xiyou ji. Staging, spectacles, and acts of recognition; Staging, mimicry, and acts of appropriation; Acting, quren, and the authenticity of incongruity; Acting, jiaren, and the artifice of congruity; Viewing: perceptive and fleshly eyes -- Part III. Didactic theater versus playful theatricals: tropes of theater in Zhishang chuntai and Wusheng xi
Summary Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Wu, Cheng'en, approximately 1500-approximately 1582. Xi you ji.
SUBJECT Shui hu zhuan. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80131227
Shui hu zhuan fast
Xi you ji (Wu, Cheng'en) fast
Subject Chinese fiction -- Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 -- History and criticism
Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- History and criticism
Theater in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Chinese fiction
Chinese fiction -- Ming dynasty
Theater in literature
Yuan Dynasty (China)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010046686
ISBN 9789004195936
9004195939