Mair / Bender The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52673-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 800 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Translations from the Asian Classics

Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mair, Victor H.

Mair, Victor

Bender, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chinese Units of Measure
"I Sit Here and Sing for You": The Oral Literature of China
1. Folk Stories and Other Spoken Traditions
2. Folk Song Traditions
3. Folk Ritual
4. The Epic Traditions
5. Folk Drama
6. Professional Storytelling Traditions of the North and South
Further Readings
Contributors and Translators

Über Autor(innen)

Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature and The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.Mark Bender is associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures at The Ohio State University and author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China.