Sarah M. Allen is Assistant Professor of Chinese at Wellesley College.
发表于2024-12-22
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Shifting Stories explores the tale literature of eighth- and ninth-century China to show how the written tales we have today grew out of a fluid culture of hearsay that circulated within elite society. Sarah M. Allen focuses on two main types of tales, those based in gossip about recognizable public figures and those developed out of lore concerning the occult. She demonstrates how writers borrowed and adapted stories and plots already in circulation and how they transformed them—in some instances into unique and artfully wrought tales. For most readers of that era, tales remained open texts, subject to revision by many hands over the course of transmission, unconstrained by considerations of textual integrity or authorship. Only in the mid- to late-ninth century did some readers and editors come to see the particular wording and authorship of a tale as important, a shift that ultimately led to the formation of the Tang tale canon as it is envisioned today.
The book's main body reveals a consistent process through which 小说 traveled from "community based gossip/lore" to "authored literary text" between the late-7th c. and the mid-9th c. The two chapters on strange encounters (Ch.3 & 4) don't fit into this storyline though. Ch.6 touches on the authorship issue through a witty perspective, "anthology."
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评分Robert Hymes唐代史week 6。欣赏格式不欣赏内容。
评分The book's main body reveals a consistent process through which 小说 traveled from "community based gossip/lore" to "authored literary text" between the late-7th c. and the mid-9th c. The two chapters on strange encounters (Ch.3 & 4) don't fit into this storyline though. Ch.6 touches on the authorship issue through a witty perspective, "anthology."
评分The book's main body reveals a consistent process through which 小说 traveled from "community based gossip/lore" to "authored literary text" between the late-7th c. and the mid-9th c. The two chapters on strange encounters (Ch.3 & 4) don't fit into this storyline though. Ch.6 touches on the authorship issue through a witty perspective, "anthology."
Shifting Stories 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书