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Sinica venetiana
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Chapter | Becoming a Couple
Becoming a Couple
Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji
- Barbara Bisetto - Università degli studi di Milano «Bicocca», Italia - email
Abstract
This paper examines the configuration of the romantic couple in Song Yuan’s Yuan-period novella Jiao Hong ji in the context of the earlier model set by the Tang dynasty classical tale Yingying zhuan. It focuses on the analysis of conversations between fictional lovers in order to examine how intimacy and the characters’ search for a shared experience of mutual acknowledgment are performed within the main plot. Shifting away from the model set by Yingying zhuan, the work of Song Yuan newly addressed the issue of love’s place in Confucian sentimentality, allowing the troubled emergence of a narrative of the couple.
Submitted: July 18, 2016 | Language: it
Keywords The Story of Yingying • Song Yuan • Chuanqi • The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong • Yingying zhuan • Jiao Hong ji
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Introduction
- Introduction
- Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红
Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature
-
Measuring Human Relations
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu - Tiziana Lippiello
- Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
- Hans van Ess
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'中国'之义:文中子的立身与存心
The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi - Zhang Pei 张沛
- On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
- Fu Gang 傅刚
- Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
- Giulia Baccini
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《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin - Liu Yongqiang 刘永强
-
Becoming a Couple
Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji - Barbara Bisetto
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The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
Continuity and Discontinuity - Nicholas Koss
Part 2 Contemporary Literature
-
‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature - Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明
- Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
- Jin Yongbing 金永兵
- The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
- Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东
Part 3 Poetry and Theatre
-
Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785) - Tian Yuan Tan
- Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
- Zhang Hui 张辉
-
What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity - Li Yang 李杨
- Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
- Yang Zhu 杨铸
-
Voices of the Dead
Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death - Qin Liyan 秦立彦
Part 4 Language and Political Discourse
- Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
- Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨
-
The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses - Paolo Magagnin
-
论“底”来源于“者”
On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者 - Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥
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Bisetto Barbara |
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Becoming a Couple. Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji |
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it |
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This paper examines the configuration of the romantic couple in Song Yuan’s Yuan-period novella Jiao Hong ji in the context of the earlier model set by the Tang dynasty classical tale Yingying zhuan. It focuses on the analysis of conversations between fictional lovers in order to examine how intimacy and the characters’ search for a shared experience of mutual acknowledgment are performed within the main plot. Shifting away from the model set by Yingying zhuan, the work of Song Yuan newly addressed the issue of love’s place in Confucian sentimentality, allowing the troubled emergence of a narrative of the couple. |
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Sinica venetiana |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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dc.issued |
2016-09-29 |
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2016-07-18 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-098-3/becoming-a-couple/ |
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10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-7 |
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2610-9654 |
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2610-9042 |
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978-88-6969-098-3 |
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978-88-6969-095-2 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Chuanqi |
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dc.subject |
Chuanqi |
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dc.subject |
Jiao Hong ji |
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dc.subject |
Jiao Hong ji |
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dc.subject |
Song Yuan |
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dc.subject |
Song Yuan |
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dc.subject |
The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong |
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dc.subject |
The Story of Jiaoniang and Feihong |
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dc.subject |
The Story of Yingying |
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dc.subject |
The Story of Yingying |
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dc.subject |
Yingying zhuan |
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dc.subject |
Yingying zhuan |
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