From Historicity To Fictionality

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Summary

A comprehensive, comparative, and cross-cultural study of the poetics of the entire Chinese narrative tradition.

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Rectifying the terms, I : "narrative," "history," and "fiction" in the West	p. 13
Rectifying the terms, II : "narrative," "history," and "fiction" in China	p. 37
Chinese historical interpretation in the reading of narrative	p. 53
The poetics of historiography	p. 74
Reading T'ang fiction as history, allegory, and fantasy	p. 93
From historicity to verisimilitude : the emergence of a poetics of fiction in China	p. 129
Postscript : storytelling and critical paradigms in the study of Chinese narrative	p. 151
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