A Structural Reading of the Chuan in the Wen-yüan ying-hua
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3628524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William H Nienhauser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 443-456 |
| Publication date | 1977-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2054093 |
| OpenAlex | W2107763849 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Perhaps the first question should be "Why?" Why transport a critical apparatus heavily laden with paradoxical factions and conflicting terminology back a millennium to the Chinese genre known as cbuana? And why a genre study, when so much groundwork is still necessary before Chinese literature can begin to demand for itself a larger consideration in general contemporary literary criticism? To attend to the second query first, genre studies are essential now for two reasons: 1) because genres evolve much more readily than their designations, and 2) because they are so basic to a reader's (and thus a critic's) approach to a work. Misunderstandings of the diachronic changes of what a generic title may include have led to useless critiques, the most notable case being perhaps that of Henry James and Fielding. In reply to the question of why a structural approach, the answer is less definitive
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |