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Reading resonance in Tang tales: allegories and beyond
Description
As many modern scholars have warned, the complexity of Tang narratives is far
beyond the reach of Lu Xun’s twentieth-century generic labels. Therefore, we should have
an acute awareness of the earlier limiting view of these categorizations, and our research
should transcend the limitations of these views in regard to this extensive corpus or to being
confined to rigid and meager reading of the richness of the stories. This dissertation will
use a transdisciplinary methodology that incorporates both history and literature in close
reading of seven Tang tales composed in the mid-to-late Tang eras (780s–early 900s), to
break the boundaries between the two generic labels, chuanqi and zhiguai, and unearth
significant configurations within these literary texts that become apparent only through
stepping across genre.
beyond the reach of Lu Xun’s twentieth-century generic labels. Therefore, we should have
an acute awareness of the earlier limiting view of these categorizations, and our research
should transcend the limitations of these views in regard to this extensive corpus or to being
confined to rigid and meager reading of the richness of the stories. This dissertation will
use a transdisciplinary methodology that incorporates both history and literature in close
reading of seven Tang tales composed in the mid-to-late Tang eras (780s–early 900s), to
break the boundaries between the two generic labels, chuanqi and zhiguai, and unearth
significant configurations within these literary texts that become apparent only through
stepping across genre.
Date Created
2017
Contributors
- Liu, Qian (Author)
- West, Stephen H. (Thesis advisor)
- Bokenkamp, Stephen (Committee member)
- Cutter, Joe R (Committee member)
- Tillman, Hoyt C (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
Resource Type
Extent
v, 314 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44226
Statement of Responsibility
by Qian Liu
Description Source
Viewed on October 17, 2017
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2017
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261)
Field of study: East Asian languages and civilizations
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