Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Here, There – and Everywhere? Eastern examples
5. Chinese Theories and Concepts of Fiction and the Issue of Transcultural Theories and Concepts of Fiction 3
6. Literature as a Vehicle for the Dao: Changing Perspectives of Fiction and Truth in Chinese Literature 31
7. Murasaki Shikibu and The Tale of Genji: Fate and Fiction 51
8. The Fiction of the Image 67
9. Linguistic and Psychological Mechanisms Behind Literary Fiction 83
10. Photons of the Human Mind: The Fiction of Personal Identity 95
11. Live Fiction: Play & Performances
12. Interaction Between the Reader, the Critic and the Author: The Qing Dramatist Hong Sheng’s Historical Play Changshengdian and Wu Yiyi’s Commentary 111
13. Performing Life and Live Theatre: Fiction in Popular Performances 137
14. Fiction Past and Present: Historical Perspectives
15. Diagnosing Fiction: From Plato to Borges 153
16. Classical Persian Literature: Fiction, Didactics or Intuitive Truth? 167
17. Historicity and Fictionality in Medieval Narrative 179
18. How the West was Won by Fiction: The Appearance of Fictional Narrative and Leisurely Reading in Western Literature (11th and 12th century) 189
19. Telling Tales: Narratology & Fictionality
20. Toward a Transcultural Poetics of Fiction: The Fusion of Narrative Visions in Chinese and Western Fiction Studies 203
21. General Beliefs from Fiction 227
22. Historical Fiction: Experiencing the Past, Reflecting History 241
23. The Frontiers of Fiction: Recent Developments
24. Unsettling Fictions: Generic Instability and Colonial Time 261
25. Whose Magic? Whose Realism? Reflections on Magical Realism in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road 275
26. Confessions of the Hydra: Variations on the Concept of Fiction in Latin America 289
27. Coda: Fiction, Translation & Interaction
28. Fiction in Global Contexts: Translation, the Universal Language of Literature 301
29. Afterword: Fiction as a Transcultural Entity 311
30. List of Contributors 325
31. Index of Names 333