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Martin W. Huang - Literati and Self-Re/Presentation - 9780804724623 - V9780804724623
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Literati and Self-Re/Presentation

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Description for Literati and Self-Re/Presentation hardcover. This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.

This study of the Chinese novel in the eighteenth century, arguably one of the greatest periods of the genre, focuses on the autobiographical features of three important works: The Dream of the Red Chamber, or The Story of the Stone (Honglou meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected The Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan).

The author seeks for answers to the question of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the eighteenth century, even as explicitly autobiographical writing was in a decline. He suggests that several new trends in the development of the ... Read more

Through close readings of the three texts, the author examines various autobiographical strategies employed by the authors, among which "masking as other"—How the authorial self is re/presented as an other - stands out as the most significant. The book links the authors' obsession with masks both to an increasingly ambiguous sense of self-identity experienced by many literati and to the larger issue of literati self-representation. Throughout, the readings do not confine themselves to purely literary matters; they also analyze the three works as a complex artifact typical of literati "self" culture and situate them in the larger intellectual history of the period.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804724623
SKU
V9780804724623
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99-50

Reviews for Literati and Self-Re/Presentation
"This brilliant, lucid volume—a 'must read' for students of Chinese literature and researchers on self-representation in the genres of autobiography and the European autobiographical novel—provides all the necessary historical and literary background required to follow the author's insightful critical analysis."—Choice

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