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The oral tradition of bianwen: Its features and influence on Chinese narrative literature.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The oral tradition of bianwen: Its features and influence on Chinese narrative literature./
Author:	Crossland-Guo, Shuyun.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3026.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International57-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Asian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9700512
ISBN:	059106703X

The oral tradition of bianwen: Its features and influence on Chinese narrative literature.
Crossland-Guo, Shuyun.

The oral tradition of bianwen: Its features and influence on Chinese narrative literature. - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-07, Section: A, page: 3026.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 1996.

This study explores the formal and literary features of the Tang "Transformation Texts" (bianwen): an oral-derived literature found within the Dunhuang corpus, discovered at the beginning of this century (1900), in the Buddhist caves in Gansu province of China. To understand the function of the prosimetric style and oral elements in bianwen, a schematic study of seven selected bianwen texts--defined by the narrowest definition--is conducted stressing their compositional styie and use of formulas. Parry-Lord's Oral-Formulaic Theory is applied to identify formulas, themes and story patterns found in bianwen. The variations, frequency of occurrence, language, and syntactical patterns of the bianwen formulas are examined to demonstrate their flexibility in composition and their relation to narrative mood. An in-depth study of "verse-introductory formulas," a distinguishing feature of the bianwen texts, illustrates how the syntactical patterns of these formulas changed through time, and how historical and Buddhist bianwen texts differed in their preference of formulaic elements. Two of the bianwen texts, Mulian Bianwen and Wang Ling Bian, are analyzed to demonstrate how formulas and thematic composition are manipulated to enhance meaning and expound thematic messages in a formulaic literature based on oral narration.

ISBN: 059106703XSubjects--Topical Terms:

1017599
Literature, Asian.

The oral tradition of bianwen: Its features and influence on Chinese narrative literature.
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