Sound, Space and Moral Soundscapes in Ruyijun zhuan and Chipozi zhuan.
This paper employs methods from phenomenology, anthropology and literary criticism to theorise the deployment of sound in two early works of erotic fiction from sixteenth-century China: Ruyijun zhuan ([The tale of ] The Lord of Perfect Satisfaction) and Chipozi zhuan (A tale of an infatuated woman)....
| Publicado en: | NAN NU -- Men, Women & Gender in Early & Imperial China Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 255 - 311 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
Dec2010
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