Shifting stories : history, gossip, and lore in narratives from Tang dynasty China / Sarah M. Allen.
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Allen, Sarah M., 1969- (författare)
- ISBN 9780674417205
- Publicerad: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2014
- Distribuerad: Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Distributed by Harvard University Press.
- Copyright: ©2014
- Engelska xvii, 311 pages
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- Note on texts and editions -- Introduction -- Telling stories, writing tales -- Filling the gaps : tales on and against history -- Strange encounters : exploring a formula -- Strange encounters : contrivance and wit -- Rewritings : authorship and the authority of the written text -- Toward the closing of texts : the anthology Yiwen ji -- Conclusions -- Appendix: Major tales and tale collections referenced in the text.
- "Explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. The author focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult"--Provided by the publisher.
Ämnesord
- Occultism in literature. (LCSH)
- Folk literature, Chinese -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Tales -- China -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Chinese literature -- Tang dynasty, 618-907 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Gossip -- China -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500. (LCSH)
- Discourse analysis, Narrative -- China. (LCSH)
- Folkdiktning -- historia (sao)
- Folksagor -- historia (sao)
- Kina (sao)
- China -- History -- Tang dynasty, 618-907. (LCSH)
- China -- Social life and customs -- 221 B.C.-960 A.D. (LCSH)
- 618-907 (Tangdynastin, Kina) (sao)
- 221 f.Kr.-960 e.Kr. (Kina) (sao)
Klassifikation
- GR335 (LCC)
- 398.20951 (DDC)
- G.07 (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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