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The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

Ssu ta ch'i-shu

By: Andrew H. Plaks

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The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

Ssu ta ch'i-shu

By: Andrew H. Plaks

A new interpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel” (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Plaks shows that their fullest critical revisions represent a sophisticated new genre of Chinese prose fiction arising in the late Ming dynasty, especially in the sixteenth century. He then analyzes these radical transformations of prior source materials, which reflect the values and intellectual concerns of the literati of the period.

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Princeton University Press

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0691273502

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The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

Ssu ta ch'i-shu

By: Andrew H. Plaks

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Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

By: Andrew H. Plaks

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Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

By: Andrew H. Plaks

Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel's allegorical elements and narrative structure. He thereby succeeds in accounting for the work's greatness in terms that do justice to its own narrative tradition and as well to recent advances in general literary theory. A close textual reading of the novel leads to discussion of a wide range of topics: ancient Chinese mythology, Chinese garden aesthetics, and the logic of alternation and recurrence. The detailed study of European allegorical texts clarifies the directions taken by comparable works of Chinese literature, and the critical tool of the literary archetype helps to locate the novel within the Chinese narrative tradition from ancient mythology to the more recent "novel" form. Professor Plaks' innovative use of traditional criticism suggests the levels of meaning the eighteenth-century author might have expected to convey to his immediate audience. This book provides not only an illuminating analysis of this important novel, but also a significant demonstration that critical concepts derived primarily from Western literary models may be fruitfully applied to Chinese narrative works. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400870720

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9781400870721

Old Stories Retold

Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

By: Andrew G. Stuckey

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Old Stories Retold

Narrative and Vanishing Pasts in Modern China

By: Andrew G. Stuckey

Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chinese literary tradition. Largely guided by Walter Benjamin’s discussions of history, G. Andrew Stuckey looks at the ways Chinese narrative engages a historical process that pieces together fragments of the past into new configurations to better serve present needs. By examining intertextual connections between separate texts, Stuckey seeks to discover traces of an “original,” whether it be thought of as the past, history, or tradition, when it has been rewritten in modern and contemporary Chinese fiction. Old Stories Retold shows how the articulation of the past into new historical configurations disrupts accepted understandings of the past, and as such, can be intentionally pitted against modernist historical knowledge to resist the modernist ends that this knowledge is mobilized to achieve.

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Lexington Books

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1461633958

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9781461633952

Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

By: Andrew H. Plaks

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Book's by Andrew H. Plaks

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

Old Stories Retold

Old Stories Retold

Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

Archetype and Allegory in the Dream of the Red Chamber

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