Literature and Popular Culture - Storytellers and Novelists
9 important questions on Literature and Popular Culture - Storytellers and Novelists
What are the roots of Chinese fiction?
What are the origins of the written imaginative narrative?
What made the Tang dynasty literati experiment with writing more self-conciously crafted tales in classical Chinese (modeled on Han dynasty prose)?
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What was the advantage of the classical prose movement over the pianwen?
Why were chuanqi a major source of inspiration for both elite and popular literature for the centruies after the Tang dynasty?
What do chuanqi and poetry have in common?
What are the contributions of Buddhism to Chinese literature?
- Philosophical and spiritual themes (e.g. karma)
- new horizons of fantasy and imagination
- techniques and conventions of vernacular storytelling (e.g. inclusion of a moral at the end of a tale, emphasis on the stories of ordinary people)
Why was the venue of vernacular storytelling the marketplace?
What makes a Chinese historical narrative so attractive to its audiences, even today?
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