Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China
内容简介
In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debates.
Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China shows that the obsession of authors with individual desire is an essential quality that defines traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre. Thus the maturation of the genre can best be appreciated in terms of its increasingly sophisticated exploration of the phenomenon of desire.
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作者简介
Martin W. Huang is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
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读书文摘
在明代小说的“私人化”过程中，我们目睹了一个相似的变化模式：从《三国演义》中的朝堂和战场，到《水浒传》和《西游记》的道路和战场，最后到《金瓶梅》中的卧房/闺房与花园。而闺房和花园在十八世纪的杰作《红楼梦》中则变得更为突出。
这里，偷窥的主题又被赋予了更深一层的意义。一个人偷窥其所不应看到的人或物，而这一偷窥又是被追求遥不可及之物的欲望所驱动的，被禁止的往往是最具诱惑力的。如果终极的欲望被定义为获得尚未拥有的事物的愿望——没有的或遥不可及之物——那么偷窥这一动作可以说正捕捉到了这种欲望致命的本性，即，它的存在恰恰取决于它的不可实现。
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