Genre and stylistic specificity of Pu Sun-lin's short story — “The Queen of Purple”
https://doi.org/10.24412/2686-9675-4-2024-54-61
Abstract
Pu Songling's (蒲松齡, 1640-1715) short story “The Queen of Purple” (絳妃) is part of the “Strange Tales from a Chinese studio” (聊齋志異) collection, but its place in the corpus of these texts is quite special. In a number of cases, for example, in the Qingketing corpus, this has been emphasised compositionally — “The Queen of Purple” completed the last volume, becoming a kind of aesthetic culmination of the whole collection. In form, this work is strikingly different from the other works in the collection, representing a classic example of fu, a prosopopoetic genre of Chinese literature, and it is created with an abundance of hidden and explicit quotations, reminiscences, allusions, etc., significantly surpassing in this matter other, even the most sophisticated texts of “Liao Zhai”. The article is devoted to the analysis of the peculiarities of this text, which has not yet been translated into Russian.
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Storozhuk A.G. Genre and stylistic specificity of Pu Sun-lin's short story — “The Queen of Purple”. Modern Oriental Studies. 2024;6(4):54-61. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24412/2686-9675-4-2024-54-61
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