FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Bandits in Print

Scott W. Gregory
    Product form
      FORMAT: Hardback

      R 4,267.00 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 4,267 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 20 - 30 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 711.16 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 1,422.33 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 1,066.75 with
      Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Scott W. Gregory EAN: 9781501769191 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      China, Chinese, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Asian history

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Scott W. Gregory is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona.
      Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best understood as a phenomenon of print. He traces the ways in which this particularly influential novel was adapted and altered in the early modern era as it crossed the boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, and civil and martial. Moving away from ultimately unanswerable questions about authorship and urtext, Gregory turns instead to the editor-publishers who shaped the novel by crafting their own print editions. By examining the novel in its various incarnations, Bandits in Print shows that print is not only a stabilizing force on literary texts; in particular circumstances and with particular genres, the print medium can be an agent of textual change.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Scott W. Gregory EAN: 9781501769191 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Cornell University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2023-04-15 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      China, Chinese, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Asian history

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Scott W. Gregory is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account