Between history and philosophy :: anecdotes in early China /

Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes--brief, freestanding accounts of single events inv...

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Weitere Verfasser: Els, Paul van, 1975- (HerausgeberIn), Queen, Sarah A. (Sarah Ann) (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
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Zusammenfassung:Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes--brief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions--served as an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts. Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 376 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781438466132
1438466137

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