Immoral Retribution

✍ Scribed by LeeAnn, Emery

• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 107 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B07VSWNR8H

✦ Synopsis

Chinese Dynasties -- pt. I. Toward a Definition of the Ameliorative Satiric Novel -- 1. The Mode of Satire in Chinese Literature -- A Selective Overview -- 2. The Ming-Qing Satiric Novel as a Genre -- Problems with Lu Xun's Definition -- Considering The Scholars in the Context of Satiric Fiction -- Alternatives to Lu Xun's Definition and Grouping -- Toward a Broader Definition of the Satiric Novel -- 3. The Ameliorative Satiric Novel -- Jin Ping Mei -- Yin-Yang Dreams to Caution the World -- The Jealous Wife (Cu hulu) -- Xingshi yinyuan and A Sequel to Jin Ping Mei -- Amelioration in Killing the Demons and The Scholars -- pt. II. Xingshi yinyuan zhuan as an Illustration -- 4. Xingshi yinyuan zhuan -- An Introduction -- Authorship and Dating -- Reception, Status, and Scholarship -- 5. Utopian and Dystopian Allegories -- Comparison with Confucian Utopias -- A Brief Comparison with Buddhist and Taoist Paradises -- Xi Zhou Sheng's Utopia: Framing the Natural with the Supernatural -- Dystopia: Devolution and Human Will -- 6. Balancing Mimesis with Satire -- Chao Yuan -- Madame Ji -- Zhen'ge -- Di Xichen -- Xue Sujie -- Tong Jijie -- The Girardian Concept of Mimetic Desire -- 7. From Individual Depravity to Official Corruption -- I. Human Vices and Foibles -- II. Deviant Relationships -- III. Immoral People of Various Classes and Professions -- A. Officials, Eunuchs, and the Gentry -- B. Educated Males of the Commoner Stratum -- C. Commoners of Various Professions -- IV. Flawed but Functional Social Institutions -- 8. Contrast, Distortion, and the Grotesque -- Contrast -- Distortion -- The Grotesque -- App. Xingshi yinyuan zhuan Plot Synopsis.