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In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, and A Tale of Heroic Lovers. Epstein argues that the authors of these novels manipulated gendered terms to achieve structural coherence. These patterns are, however, frequently at odds with other gendered structures in the texts, and authors exploited these conflicts to discuss the problem of orthodox behavior versus the cult of feeling.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: Competing Discourses
• Subtitle: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction
• Author: Maram Epstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9780674005129
• ISBN: 0674005120
• ID: 05145298
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Weight: 671 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 160 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2001

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