《Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature》是University of Washington Press出版的圖書，作者是Wilt L. Idema，Haiyan Lee
基本介紹
- 中文名：Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
- 作者：Wilt L. Idema、Haiyan Lee
- 出版時間：2019年3月12日
- 出版社：University of Washington Press
- 頁數：272 頁
- ISBN：9780295744858
- 裝幀：Hardcover
- 售價：USD 95.00
內容簡介
In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats ...(展開全部) In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, competitive relationship between rodents (vilified as thieves of grain) and the felines with whom they are perennially at war is explored in this presentation of Chinese tales about cats and mice. Master translator Wilt Idema situates them in an overview of animal tales in world literature, in the Chinese literary tradition as a whole, and within Chinese imaginative depictions of animals. The tales demonstrate the animals' symbolism and their unusually prominent―and verbal―role in the stories. These readings depict cats and mice in conflict, in marital bonds, and in litigation―most centrally in a legal case of a mouse against a cat in the underworld court of King Yama. Many of the stories adopt the perspective of the mice as animals merely trying to survive, while also recognizing that cats are natural hunters. This entertaining volume will appeal to readers interested in Chinese literature and society, comparative literature, and posthumanist consideration of human-animal relations. Wilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University. He is the author of Chinese Vernacular Fiction: The Formative Period, coauthor of The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China, and translator of Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets: An Anthology and other works of traditional Chinese literature. Haiyan Lee is professor of East Asian languages an...（展開）
