Commentated Into His Own Image: Jin Shengtan and His Commentary Edition of the Shuihu Zhuan

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dc.contributor.authorMorrison, Mark Benjamin
dc.contributor.supervisorKing, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2013-08-22T19:41:54Z
dc.date.available2013-08-22T19:41:54Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-08-22
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Pacific and Asian Studies
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines three aspects of the commentary edition of the Chinese vernacular novel Shuihu Zhuan written by Ming Dynasty literatus Jin Shengtan (ca. 1610-1661), analyzing three of the most innovative features that the commentary brings to our understanding of the novel, and what Jin Shengtan desired for the reader of his commentary to understand. The first chapter looks at a series of techniques that Jin outlines in the preliminary "How to Read" section of the commentary (dufa), where the techniques are shown to be very similar in focus and style to the literary theory of narratology as written about by Gerard Genette through a sample comparison of five of the techniques with varying characteristics of narratology. The second chapter looks at how Jin Shengtan constructs the image of the author, Shi Nai'an, through both his interlineal commentary (jiapi) and his preliminary chapter commentary (zongpi). We see through this analysis that Jin Shengtan has gone against the tradition of shu er bu zuo -- a Confucian tradition that relegates the position of the author to the background of his work -- and has brought the author into a position of prominence through his construction of the image of an unparalleled genius. The third and final chapter looks at the idea of "heroism" (xia) and how Jin's commentary reworks the way many of the primary characters of the novel and their heroic actions are seen and interpreted, focusing especially on the characters of Wu Song, Lu Zhishen, Song Jiang and Li Kui, where we see that Jin's commentary focuses on parallels between the heroes such as Wu Song and Lu Zhishen in the first portion of the novel, while switching to a more juxtapositional perspective in the latter half of the novel through Song Jiang and Li Kui.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0305en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0332en_US
dc.description.proquestemailmblsm00@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4825
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectJin Shengtanen_US
dc.subjectMing Dynastyen_US
dc.subjectQing Dynastyen_US
dc.subjectChinese Vernacular Literatureen_US
dc.subjectCommentaryen_US
dc.subjectChinese Historyen_US
dc.subjectKnight-Erranten_US
dc.subjectNarratologyen_US
dc.subjectWuxiaen_US
dc.subjectHeroismen_US
dc.subjectShuihu Zhuanen_US
dc.subjectWater Marginen_US
dc.subjectPingdian Commentaryen_US
dc.titleCommentated Into His Own Image: Jin Shengtan and His Commentary Edition of the Shuihu Zhuanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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