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T'ang Stories in the "T'ai-P'ing Kuang-Chi".

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	T'ang Stories in the "T'ai-P'ing Kuang-Chi"./
Author:	Hammond, Charles Edward.
Description:	1 online resource (292 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 48-07, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International48-07A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798206017861

T'ang Stories in the "T'ai-P'ing Kuang-Chi".
Hammond, Charles Edward.

T'ang Stories in the "T'ai-P'ing Kuang-Chi". - 1 online resource (292 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 48-07, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1987.

Includes bibliographical references

Part I is a generic discussion of the stories. In Chapter I we consider what modern critics have written about the stories, beginning with a discussion of the difference between ch'uan-ch'i and chih-kuai, revealing that by far the majority of the stories concern the supernatural. Second, we turn to a discussion of the ku-wen movement and the civil service examinations as influences on the stories. Finally, we briefly examine the role of didacticism and poetry in the stories. Chapter II is a discussion of the close identification between history and hsiao-shuo and how this led the Chinese to interpret the stories as romans a clef, an approach that is usually not justified. Chapter III, an analysis of earlier writing about the stories, is mainly devoted to what the authors of four anthologies themselves wrote about the stories, which shows that they believed that they were all true. To show how the authors wrote the stories, Part II is organized along thematic lines, showing how the authors of these stories copied their material from oral and written sources, gradually transforming the content. To demonstrate the great similarity between groups of stories, we have classified them into three groups. Stories in the first group are those describing objects and people (often Taoists or Buddhists) with special powers. Though these descriptions tend to consist of narratives with little plot, they offer interesting glimpses into the contemporary technology, as well as demonstrating how priests and monks were permitted to behave. Those in the second group are concerned with fate, revenge, and retribution. While these often smack of religious propaganda, at the same time, their morality is often illuminating. Finally, the stories in the third section are more purely fantastic, describing events where the usual physical or metaphysical limitations do not apply; as their fantasy is most similar to fiction, they are often the most interesting as stories.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798206017861Subjects--Topical Terms:

1183555
Asian literature.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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