Fictions of Enlightenment Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber /
Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature...
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press
[2023]
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1043 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-739 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Fictions of Enlightenment is the first book to examine the fascinating and intricate relationship between Buddhism and the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. Qiancheng Li brings Buddhist models to bear on the vision, structure, and narrative form of three classics of late imperial literature-Journey to the West, Tower of Myriad Mirrors, and Dream of the Red Chamber-arguing that by fashioning their plots after the narratives of certain Mahāyāna sutras, the novelists transformed Buddhist concepts into narrative structures. Within the traditional Chinese novel Li even defines a new genre: the fiction of enlightenment |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (264 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780824844547 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9780824844547 |