The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
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The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
by Mei, Chun
fromSinica Leidensia
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Type: Book
The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
by Mei, Chun
fromSinica Leidensia
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Type: Book
The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
by Mei, Chun
fromSinica Leidensia
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Type: Book
The cultural fascination with and imagination of theater has long been overlooked as an important historical and literary context for reading Water Margin and Journey to the West . This study focuses on the concept of "the theatrical" to read those novels and their commentaries.…
The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
by Mei, Chun
fromSinica Leidensia
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Type: Book
The novel and theatrical imagination in early modern China
by Mei, Chun
fromSinica Leidensia
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Type: Book
Using the concept of theatricality to study Water Margin and Journey to the West, this study illustrates how writing and reading in early modern China became fused with a theatrical imagination in response to destabilizing social and political forces.
In this study Saggini explores the relationship between the late 18th-century novel and the theatre, arguing that the implicit theatricality of the Gothic novel made it an obvious source from which dramatists could take ideas. Similarly, elements of the theatre provided inspirat…
