Bandits in Print
Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre an...
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| description | Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-992422025-07-17T12:15:21Z Bandits in Print Gregory, Scott W. history of the chinese novel, Ming Dynasty literature, four classic novels of china, Water Margin meaning, vernacular Mandarin novels thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era. Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change. 2023-04-18T10:16:27Z 2023-04-18T10:16:27Z 2023-03-29T15:52:25Z 2023 book ONIX_20230329_9781501769214_190 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62219 9781501769214 9781501769191 9781501769207 9781501769689 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/99242 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62219/1/9781501769214.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/62219/1/9781501769214.pdf Cornell University Press Cornell East Asia Series 05937e7b-c222-4680-9580-c09c5ce7a11e c9a9618c-a612-4f7a-8805-37560e836b45 9781501769214 9781501769191 9781501769207 9781501769689 Cornell East Asia Series 192 Ithaca [...] open access |
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