Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan - Marriage As Retribution, Awakening the World: v. 9 - Rilegato

Wu, Yenna

9780773479562: Ameliorative Satire and the Seventeenth-Century Chinese Novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan - Marriage As Retribution, Awakening the World: v. 9

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ISBN 10: 0773479562 ISBN 13: 9780773479562

Casa editrice: Edwin Mellen Pr, 2000

Traditionally, scholars of Chinese literature have viewed Wu Jingzi's The Scholars (ca. 1750) as the first satiric novel of Chinese literature. Yenna Wu (Chinese literature, U. of California, Riverside) counters that it was preceded by such works as Xi Zhou Sheng's Marriage as Retribution, Awakening the World (ca.1661). After arguing for the broadening of the parameters of the definition of the satiric novel and the inclusion of a number of novels previously excluded from the category, Wu devotes the bulk of the work to the presentation of Marriage as Retribution as a significant example of the satiric and examines Sheng's strategies and goals in the novel's composition.

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