The Writing Style and the Meaning of the “Record of Night Monsters in Dongyang”
Journal
臺大中文學報
Journal Issue
51
Pages
099-144
Date Issued
2015-12
Author(s)
Yun-Cih Fang
Abstract
In this article, I reexamine the “Record of Night Monsters in Dongyang” and position it in the field of Chinese literature. First of all, I delve into the xie-yin ‘amusing allusions’ style of the “Record” and build a set of criteria to define xie-yin. Second, by applying Liu Xie’s method of inspecting the context of a text for perceiving the meaning, I find that the implications of the riddles designed by the writer of the “Record” reveal the thought of the literati at that time. There are also series of works of the xie-yin style written by famous literati involved in the political strife of the middle and the end of the Tang Dynasty such as Niu Seng-Ru and Zhang Du. In my opinion, the “Record of Night Monsters in Dongyang” is highly relative to these series of works.
Subjects
literary theory
amusing allusion
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons
a prose style containing various elements
“Record of Night Monsters in Dongyang”
Type
journal article
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