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http://repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/46312| Type: | Artigo de Periódico |
| Title: | Reading romance: reading the oppositional in narrative |
| Authors: | Wang, Xuan |
| Keywords: | Romance;Literatura |
| Issue Date: | 2019 |
| Publisher: | Revista Entrelaces |
| Citation: | WANG, Xuan. Reading romance: reading the oppositional in narrative. Revista Entrelaces, Fortaleza (CE), v. 1, n. 15, p. 121-131, jan./mar. 2019. |
| Abstract in Brazilian Portuguese: | Since its first extant preface signed in 1592 to the present day of the Journey to the West studies in the United States, this fantastic quest-romance has been interpreted as the Daoist manual for cultivating the internal alchemy, the Confucian allegory of controlling the mind, and above all, a masterwork in literature that is teeming with cynicism, irony, and social critique— a thorough dismissal of the theological/moral/philosophical allegoresis. These two opposing modes in reading this 1592 Chinese fiction, I argue, recall the two ways of reading the Western romance such as the Divine Comedy, the Faerie Queene, and the Pilgrim’s Progress. While Singleton and Frye, for example, endorse the theology/ideology-oriented interpretation, critics as Bloom, Berger, Parker, Goldberg, Teskey, and Fish, have highlighted the exceptional and idiosyncratic: it is the anti-progress aspect of the text that stands out and constitutes the genre of romance |
| URI: | http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/46312 |
| ISSN: | 1980 4571 |
| Access Rights: | Acesso Aberto |
| Appears in Collections: | PPGLE - Artigos publicados em revistas científicas |
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