Competing Discourses

Competing Discourses
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By:"Maram Epstein"
"Literary Criticism"
Published on 2001 by Harvard Univ Asia Center

One of the unresolved questions in the textual history of Honglou meng is the \u003cbr\u003e\nnature of the relationship between the Precious Mirror chapters and the final 80-\u003cbr\u003e\nchapter version of \u003cb\u003eCao Xueqin's\u003c/b\u003e Shitou ji. The style of characterization in these ...

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In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to Awaken the World, Dream of the Red Chamber, A Country Codger's Words of Exposure, Flowers in the Mirror, and A Tale of Heroic Lovers. Epstein argues that the authors of these novels manipulated gendered terms to achieve structural coherence. These patterns are, however, frequently at odds with other gendered structures in the texts, and authors exploited these conflicts to discuss the problem of orthodox behavior versus the cult of feeling.

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