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Volpp, Sophie, (1963-)

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The substance of fiction : = literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The substance of fiction :/ Sophie Volpp.
Reminder of title:	literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /
Author:	Volpp, Sophie,
Published:	New York :Columbia University Press, : c2022.,
Description:	x, 245 p. :ill. ;23 cm.
Subject:	Chinese fiction - History and criticism. - Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -
ISBN:	9780231199643

The substance of fiction : = literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /
Volpp, Sophie,1963-

The substance of fiction :literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /Sophie Volpp. - New York :Columbia University Press,c2022. - x, 245 p. :ill. ;23 cm. - Premodern East Asia: new horizons.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.

"Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Instead, she argues, fictional objects are often signs of fictionality themselves, calling attention to the nature of the relationship between literature and materiality. Volpp examines a series of objects--a robe, a box and a shell, a telescope, a plate-glass mirror, and a painting-drawn from the canonical works frequently mined for information about late imperial material culture, including the novels The Plum in the Golden Vase and The Story of the Stone as well as the short fiction of Feng Menglong, Ling Mengchu, and Li Yu. She argues that although fictional objects invite readers to think of them as illustrative, in fact, inconsistent and discontinuous representation disconnects the literary object from potential historical analogues. The historical resonances of literary objects illuminate the rhetorical strategies of individual works of fiction and, more broadly, conceptions of fictionality in the Ming and Qing. Rather than offering a transparent lens on the past, fictional objects train the reader to be aware of the fallibility of perception. A deeply insightful analysis of late Ming and Qing texts and reading practices, The Substance of Fiction has important implications for Chinese literary studies, history, and art history, as well as the material turn in the humanities"--

ISBN: 9780231199643

LCCN: 2021038662Subjects--Topical Terms:

3363870
Chinese fiction
--History and criticism.--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

LC Class. No.: PL2436 / .V65 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 895.13/4609

The substance of fiction : = literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /
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