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Record Nr.

UNINA9910882893503321

Autore

Shi Changyu

Titolo

The Origin and Development of Chinese Fiction / / by Changyu Shi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9789819745258

981974525X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 pages)

Disciplina

895.13009

Soggetti

Fiction

Oriental literature

Literary form

Literature - History and criticism

Literature - Philosophy

Fiction Literature

Asian Literature

Literary Genre

Literary History

Literary Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Xiaoshuo and Elements of Its Literary Style -- 2. The Origin of the Literary Style of Xiaoshuo -- 3. Between Historiography and Xiaoshuo -- 4. Chuanqi Tales -- 5. Huaben Xiaoshuo -- 6. The Chapter-Division Xiaoshuo.

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the origin and development of Chinese fiction before late Qing dynasty. It covers a broad range of topics in traditional Chinese fiction studies including novels written in classical and vernacular Chinese, structure and narrative of fiction writing, the relationship between fiction and other traditional Chinese literary genres such as legends and proses of the pre-Qin philosophers. This book is a classic introduction to history of Chinese fiction studies since being first published in 1995. Changyu Shi graduated from the Chinese



Language and Literature Department of Central China Normal University in 1962, and in 1981 he graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with a master’s degree. He is a researcher and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.