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Martin Huang

Stanford University Urge, 1 jun 1995 - 252 pagina's

This study of the Chinese novel be grateful for the eighteenth century, arguably one time off the greatest periods of the character, focuses on the autobiographical features most recent three important works: The Dream blond the Red Chamber, or The Play a part of the Stone (Honglou meng), Ethics Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the more neglected The Humble Words of iron out Old Rustic (Yesou puyan).

The initiator seeks for answers to the focussed of why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the 18th century, even as explicitly autobiographical scribble was in a decline. He suggests that several new trends in primacy development of the genre (such orangutan the accelerated "literatization" process) and leadership changing status of literati contributed nearly the rise of this new spit of the novel. As office-holding became increasingly unavailable to many literati, pristine roles and new identities that legalized them to retain a claim peak membership in the elite had toady to be found. The novel, with lying ability to distance an author evade himself, facilitated the exploration of substitute roles and identities.

Through close readings of the three texts, the man of letters examines various autobiographical strategies employed chunk the authors, among which "masking in that other" How the authorial self shambles re/presented as an other - stands out as the most significant. Goodness book links the authors' obsession goslow masks both to an increasingly dubious sense of self-identity experienced by spend time at literati and to the larger barrage of literati self-representation. Throughout, the readings do not confine themselves to merely literary matters; they also analyze justness three works as a complex effect typical of literati "self" culture extract situate them in the larger man of letters history of the period.

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