ISBN:
9781501769207
,
9781501769214
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 179 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Cornell East Asia series number 212
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gregory, Scott W., 1972 - Bandits in print
DDC:
895.13/409
Keywords:
Shui hu zhuan
;
Chinese fiction History and criticism Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
;
Chinese fiction Publishing
;
History
;
Asian history
;
Asiatische Geschichte
;
Chinese
;
Chinesisch
;
HISTORY / Asia / China
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese
;
LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading
;
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren
;
China
;
China
;
China
;
Shui hu zhuan
;
Edition
;
Mingdynastie
;
Buchdruck
Abstract:
"Bandits in Print uses the classic novel "The Water Margin" (Shuihu Zhuan) to examine the world of print in early modern China, tracing the ways the novel was adapted and altered by influential editor-publishers in the Ming and arguing that in some circumstances the print medium can be an agent of textual change"--
Abstract:
Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Bandits' Reception -- "Falsifying a Biography Brought him Power": The "Wuding Editions" and Guo Xun -- "One freshly slaughtered pig, two flagons of Jinhua wine . . . and a small book": The Censorate Edition -- After the Fire: Li Kaixian, The Precious Sword, and the "Xiong Damu Mode" -- Characters in the Margins: The Commercial Editions -- "The Art of Subtle Phrasing has been Extinguished": The Jin Shengtan Edition -- Conclusion: Bandits in Print.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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