The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
By: by Mei Chun
Series: Sinica leidensia -- 101
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9789004191662
Subjects: Chinese fiction; History and criticism; Theater in literature; Shui hu zhuan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: 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; title: 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; title: Part III. Didactic theater versus playful theatricals: tropes of theater in Zhishang chuntai and Wusheng xi.