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9780804723190

From Historicity to Fictionality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804723190

  • ISBN10:

    0804723192

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1994-10-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
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Summary

A comprehensive, comparative, and cross-cultural study of the poetics of the entire Chinese narrative tradition.

Author Biography

Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu is Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Introductionp. 1
Rectifying the Terms, I: "Narrative," "History," and "Fiction" in the Westp. 13
Rectifying the Terms, II: "Narrative," "History," and "Fiction" in Chinap. 37
Chinese Historical Interpretation in the Reading of Narrativep. 53
The Poetics of Historiographyp. 74
Reading Tang Fiction as History, Allegory, and Fantasyp. 93
From Historicity to Verisimilitude: The Emergence of a Poetics of Fiction in Chinap. 129
Postscript: Storytelling and Critical Paradigms in the Study of Chinese Narrativep. 151
Notesp. 171
Works Citedp. 183
Character Listp. 197
Indexp. 205
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