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9780804751421

From Historicity To Fictionality

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804751421

  • ISBN10:

    0804751420

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-09-14
  • 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 H. Lu is Associate Professor of Chinese, Film Studies, and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

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 T'ang 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
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