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- Title
A Constructed Genre: Negotiation on the Relation between Biography and "Chuanqi Wen" from the View of "Genre Differentiation".
- Authors
Tsz-wing Wu; Chi-hung Wong
- Abstract
Since Lu Xun proposed the concept of "chuanqi wen," this literary term has been widely accepted and used. Yet some scholars question the use of this term. Although works of "chuanqi wen" were being selected by some compilers, in various literary anthologies of the pre-modern China, the term was never been considered an independent genre in the "pedigree" of traditional genres. Notwithstanding scholars keep attempting to clarify the features of biography and "chuanqi wen," none of them is successful as their researches always tied to the study of fiction. The clarification of "chuanqi wen" not only is of importance to the reconstruction of the history of classical Chinese fiction, but also raises complicated questions of genre differentiation before and after the Classical Prose Movement of the Tang and Song Dynasties. This article attempts to break through the realm of fiction, and to study "chuanqi wen" in the "pedigree" of traditional genres. To better understand Lu Xun's concept on "chuanqi wen," this article differentiates the concept of "chuanqi wen" from "chuanqi," and also investigates how literati of the pre-modern China differentiated pseudo-biography from "chuanqi wen" in term of combining the development of literary thoughts since the Tang-Song periods.
- Subjects
LU, Xun, 1881-1936; LITERARY form; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form); PROSE literature -- History &; criticism; CHINESE literature; HISTORY
- Publication
Humanitas Taiwanica, 2017, Issue 86, p87
- ISSN
1015-2687
- Publication type
Article