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Ge, Liangyan. Out of the Margins: The Rise of Chinese Vernacular Fiction. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
- An investigation of the composition of The Water Margin, the relationship between oral and written literature, and the emergence of vernacular fiction. Try the “Introduction” and Chapter 2.
This is the instruction.
Your report should be roughly 500-700 words in length, and should:
- Discuss the author’s overall approach. E.g. is it focused on: Providing a general overview of a topic? Offering a close reading and interpretation of one or more texts? Explaining particular terms or concepts necessary to understanding a text? Discussing historical or cultural contexts? Exploring or establishing a theoretical model? Comparing different texts or contexts?
- Summarize the author’s main thesis (or argument), and the main ways in which s/he attempts to justify that thesis (this is not the same as summarizing everything discussed in the work).
- Offer a critique of the author’s approach and argument. What are its strengths and weaknesses? How effectively has the author established her or his thesis? To what extent has s/he accounted for the most important considerations?
- Conclude by pointing out the reading’s connections with course content.(we have read part of 水浒传，西游记，莺莺传，西厢记，秋思，不伏老 which belong different genres.)
For this assignment you may use in-text citations (e.g. page numbers in parentheses). At the end of the report, provide full bibliographic information on your chosen article/chapter/book in Chicago bibliography format.
