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Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing Between the Lines

Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing Between the Lines

Rolston, David L.

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0804727201
ISBN13: 9780804727204
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.18 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.33
Language: English

In the Ming and Qing periods, the Chinese read fiction in editions with extensive commentary printed on the same page as the fiction itself. This commentary was concerned less with helping the reader understand the letter of the text than with drawing the reader's attention to its more notable aspects through emphatic punctuation (similar to our underlining, italics, or highlighting) and evaluative comments. Authors developed four different approaches to the challenges this type of commentary presented: they wrote their own commentary, they modeled aspects of their narrators on fiction commentators, they left space in their texts for readers to compose their own commentaries, or they combined these approaches.

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