College Bulletin 2022-2023 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LITR 024CH. History of Chinese Literature: Fiction and Drama


(Cross-listed as CHIN 024 )
This course surveys major narrative and genres, forms and works from the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) through the early twentieth century with an emphasis on fiction and drama. Readings consist of both primary texts in English translation and secondary critical works. Issues to be emphasized include print history and format (including illustration), performance context, the relationship between oral and written, vernacular and classical storytelling, the invention of Chinese literary history as a discipline in the Republican period.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Catalog chapter: Modern Languages and Literatures: Literatures in Translation  
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/modern-languages-literatures


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