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Theaters of Desire
Patricia Sieber
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Description for Theaters of Desire
Hardback. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DSBB; DSBD; DSG; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju and sanqu , to imagine and embody new concepts of authorship, readership and desire, an interpretation that contrasts starkly with the national and racially-oriented reception of song-drama ... Read more
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and international cultural contexts, but adds a Chinese perspective to the scholarship on print culture, authorship, and the regulatory discourses of desire. The book argues that, particularly between 1550 and 1680, Chinese elite editors rewrote and printed early plays and songs, so-called Yuan-dynasty zaju and sanqu , to imagine and embody new concepts of authorship, readership and desire, an interpretation that contrasts starkly with the national and racially-oriented reception of song-drama ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
289
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403961945
SKU
V9781403961945
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99-15
About Patricia Sieber
PATRICIA SIEBER is Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University. After studying Chinese, Japanese and German literature in Tokyo, Zurich and Beijing, she received her Ph.D. in Chinese from the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles on Chinese canon formation, literary thought and East/West cultural relations have appeared in Contemporary Buddhism, ... Read more
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