東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Quest for the urtext: The textual ar...

West, Andrew Christopher.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II)./
Author:	West, Andrew Christopher.
Description:	600 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3753.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-10A.
Subject:	Asian literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9407096

Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II).
West, Andrew Christopher.

Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II). - 600 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3753.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1993.

This dissertation is a textual study of the famous Chinese "historical novel" The Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi), putatively composed by Luo Guanzhong (c.1330-c.1400). By undertaking a meticulous study of the various editions, including the Manchu translation, I attempt to reconstruct the textual evolution and publication history of this work from the hypothetical earliest textual form (the urtext) through to the version of the text established by Mao Zonggang (1632-c.1709) (first published in 1679) which over the last three hundred years has become the standard text to the exclusion of all other antecedent recensions. Some thirty non-Mao Zonggang editions, dating from the late Ming (1368-1644) and early Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, are now known to be still extant (two-thirds of which emanated from the popular publishing houses of Jianyang County in Fujian), and although they all preserve the same basic structure of 240 narrative items, there are a number of important textual variations between sets of editions, the most important feature being the presence or absence of narrative material relating to a legendary figure known as (Hua) Guan Suo, the origins of which I discuss in detail. In order to avoid the subjective criteria used in previous textual studies of The Three Kingdoms, I develop a methodology of comparative textual study based on the common occurrence of a form of mechanical scribal error known as homoeoteleutic omission. By comparing the occurrence of homoeoteleutic omission in a range of editions I am able to demonstrate conclusively the textual filiation of editions, and show whether textual variation is due to interpolation or omission. My findings show, among other things, that the urtext would not have contained any (Hua) Guan Suo narrative material, and that the theory that The Three Kingdoms evolved out of a "popular" prototype closely related to oral prose and prosimetric literature is unfounded. I further discuss the relationship of the urtext to historiographic and "popular" (zaju drama and pinghua prose narrative) sources, and consider the problems of dating and authorship of The Three Kingdoms, which I suggest may indeed have been composed by Luo Guanzhong during the late Yuan (1271-1368) or early Ming.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122707
Asian literature.

Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II).
LDR:03127nmm a2200265 4500 001 2074221
005 20160927125418.5
008 170521s1993 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI9407096
035 $a AAI9407096
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a West, Andrew Christopher. $3 3189518
245 1 0 $a Quest for the urtext: The textual archaeology of "The Three Kingdoms". (Volumes I and II).
300 $a 600 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-10, Section: A, page: 3753.
500 $a Adviser: Andrew H. Plaks.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 1993.
520 $a This dissertation is a textual study of the famous Chinese "historical novel" The Three Kingdoms (Sanguo Yanyi), putatively composed by Luo Guanzhong (c.1330-c.1400). By undertaking a meticulous study of the various editions, including the Manchu translation, I attempt to reconstruct the textual evolution and publication history of this work from the hypothetical earliest textual form (the urtext) through to the version of the text established by Mao Zonggang (1632-c.1709) (first published in 1679) which over the last three hundred years has become the standard text to the exclusion of all other antecedent recensions. Some thirty non-Mao Zonggang editions, dating from the late Ming (1368-1644) and early Qing (1644-1911) dynasties, are now known to be still extant (two-thirds of which emanated from the popular publishing houses of Jianyang County in Fujian), and although they all preserve the same basic structure of 240 narrative items, there are a number of important textual variations between sets of editions, the most important feature being the presence or absence of narrative material relating to a legendary figure known as (Hua) Guan Suo, the origins of which I discuss in detail. In order to avoid the subjective criteria used in previous textual studies of The Three Kingdoms, I develop a methodology of comparative textual study based on the common occurrence of a form of mechanical scribal error known as homoeoteleutic omission. By comparing the occurrence of homoeoteleutic omission in a range of editions I am able to demonstrate conclusively the textual filiation of editions, and show whether textual variation is due to interpolation or omission. My findings show, among other things, that the urtext would not have contained any (Hua) Guan Suo narrative material, and that the theory that The Three Kingdoms evolved out of a "popular" prototype closely related to oral prose and prosimetric literature is unfounded. I further discuss the relationship of the urtext to historiographic and "popular" (zaju drama and pinghua prose narrative) sources, and consider the problems of dating and authorship of The Three Kingdoms, which I suggest may indeed have been composed by Luo Guanzhong during the late Yuan (1271-1368) or early Ming.
590 $a School code: 0181.
650 4 $a Asian literature. $3 2122707
650 4 $a Asian history. $2 bicssc $3 1099323
690 $a 0305
690 $a 0332
710 2 $a Princeton University. $3 645579
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 54-10A.
790 $a 0181
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 1993
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9407096