This paper will examine the configuration of the romantic couple in Song Yuan’s novella Jiao Hong ji from the Yuan period in the context of the earlier model set by the Tang dynasty classical tale Yingying zhuan. It will focus on the analysis of conversations and other forms of dialogical exchanges between fictional lovers in order to examine how intimacy and the characters’ search for a shared experience of mutual acknowledgment are performed within the main plot. Shifting away from the model set by Yingying zhuan, the work of Song Yuan newly addressed the issue of the place of love in Confucian sentimentality allowing the troubled emergence of a narrative of the “us”.

Bisetto, B. (2013). A Space of Their Own: The Quest for Intimacy and the Trouble of the Romantic Couple in Traditional Chinese Fiction. A Perspective from Jiao Hong ji. Intervento presentato a: International Conference Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese History of Literature and Thought, Venice, Italy.

A Space of Their Own: The Quest for Intimacy and the Trouble of the Romantic Couple in Traditional Chinese Fiction. A Perspective from Jiao Hong ji

BISETTO, BARBARA
2013

Abstract

This paper will examine the configuration of the romantic couple in Song Yuan’s novella Jiao Hong ji from the Yuan period in the context of the earlier model set by the Tang dynasty classical tale Yingying zhuan. It will focus on the analysis of conversations and other forms of dialogical exchanges between fictional lovers in order to examine how intimacy and the characters’ search for a shared experience of mutual acknowledgment are performed within the main plot. Shifting away from the model set by Yingying zhuan, the work of Song Yuan newly addressed the issue of the place of love in Confucian sentimentality allowing the troubled emergence of a narrative of the “us”.
relazione (orale)
Chinese pre-modern narrative, emotions, love, intimacy, Jiao Hong ji
English
Chinese
International Conference Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese History of Literature and Thought
2013
2013
none
Bisetto, B. (2013). A Space of Their Own: The Quest for Intimacy and the Trouble of the Romantic Couple in Traditional Chinese Fiction. A Perspective from Jiao Hong ji. Intervento presentato a: International Conference Linking Ancient and Contemporary: Continuities and Discontinuities in Chinese History of Literature and Thought, Venice, Italy.
File in questo prodotto:
Non ci sono file associati a questo prodotto.

I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/10281/55739
Citazioni
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
Social impact