Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction 9780824863821
The novel Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan), China's earliest full-length narrative in vernacular prose, first appeared i
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English Pages 306 [304] Year 2001
Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Chinese Romanization
Introduction
1. Vernacularization before Shuihu zhuan
2. Told or Written: That is the Question
3. The Narrative Pattern: The Uniform versus the Multiform
4. From Voice to Text: The Orality-Writing Dynamic
5. The Engine of Narrative Making: Audience, Storytellers, and Shuhui xiansheng
6. Literary Vernacular and Novelistic Discourse
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Chinese Romanization
Introduction
1. Vernacularization before Shuihu zhuan
2. Told or Written: That is the Question
3. The Narrative Pattern: The Uniform versus the Multiform
4. From Voice to Text: The Orality-Writing Dynamic
5. The Engine of Narrative Making: Audience, Storytellers, and Shuhui xiansheng
6. Literary Vernacular and Novelistic Discourse
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
- Author / Uploaded
- Liangyan Ge
