Narrative of Chinese and Western Popular Fiction Comparison and Interpretation /

• Main Author: Huang, Yonglin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Comparative literature.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Chinese language.; Comparative Literature.; Language and Literature.; Chinese.

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the narrative history and narrative methods of Chinese and Western popular fiction from the perspectives of narratology, comparative literature, and art and literature studies by adopting the methodology of parallel comparison. The book is a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Popular Literature, Elite Literature and Folk Literature
• Folktales and the Evolution of Fiction
• Narrative Modes of Popular Fiction
• Court-case Fiction and Detective Fiction
• Martial Arts Fiction and Chivalric Literature
• Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories
• Romantic Fiction and Erotic Fiction
• Bibliography.