CHIN 105. Fiction in Traditional China: People and Places, Journeys, and Romances

In this seminar, we will explore the most celebrated and influential examples of novelistic literature in traditional, pre-modern China. We will look at these extended, elaborate writings in terms of overt structure and content as well as backgrounded literary and cultural material, and we will address their production and consumption in literati and popular contexts. We also will consider these writings in terms of the formulation of enduring cultural contours of allegory and lyricism, individual and society, aesthetics and emotion, imagination and realism, heroism and valor.
All readings will be in English translation.
2 credits.
Not offered 2014-2015.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/chinese
Modern Languages and Literatures: Chinese

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CHIN 105.&nbsp;Fiction in Traditional China: People and Places, Journeys, and Romances

CHIN 105. Fiction in Traditional China: People and Places, Journeys, and Romances