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Further Adventures on the Journey to the West
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33,99 € |
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| Verlag: | University Of Washington Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.10.2020 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9780295747736 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 278 |
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Beschreibungen
<p>As the audacious Monkey King battles his way through a landscape of inexplicable places and unfamiliar passions, <i>Further Adventures on the Journey to the West</i> offers a wry, revisionist critique of the late-Ming fascination with desire. Building on the great sixteenth-century novel <i>Journey to the West</i>, which recounts the escapades of a monk and three companions traveling to India in search of Buddhist scriptures to carry back to China, this sequel is a parable of self-delusion that explores the tension between desire and emptiness from a Buddhist perspective. The consummate literati novel, written by an accomplished artist for a well-educated readership, it is filled with allusions and parodies and features a dream-sequence narrative that is innovative and sophisticated even by modern standards. </p>
<p>This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the author’s erudition and versatility.</p>
<p>This new, fully annotated translation by two acclaimed scholars and translators brings to life this remarkably inventive, playful early modern text. The volume includes the original commentaries and illustrations, a critical introduction and afterword, and notes that highlight the sources of the novel’s intertextual references, revealing the author’s erudition and versatility.</p>
<p>The Monkey King takes on his biggest challenge: his own unconscious desires</p>
<p>Qiancheng Li is author of <i>Fictions of Enlightenment</i> and <i>Transmutations of Desire</i> and editor of the Chinese variorum, critical edition of <i>Further Adventures on the Journey to the West</i>. Robert E. Hegel is Liselotte Dieckmann Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and emeritus professor of Chinese at Washington University, and author of <i>The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China</i>.</p>
<p>"One of the strangest and most fascinating novels the Chinese tradition ever produced. The interweaving of humor and profundity in <i>Further Adventures on the Journey to the West</i> is both homage to its beloved parent novel and utterly unique."—Rania Huntington, author of<i> Ink and Tears: Memory, Mourning, and Writing in the Yu Family</i></p>
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