Beyond valor and bloodshed: the arts of war as a path to serenity / Karl F. Friday -- Table and bed: on the refinement of culture at the medieval court / Horst Wenzel -- Of swords and plowshares: dislocation and transformations in Chrétien's Grail story / Matilda T. Bruckner -- The martial arts and the loss of decorum in some medieval French narratives: Chrétien's Perceval, The Prose Lancelot, and Jehan de Saintré / Douglas Kelly -- Heroes and superheroes: the heroic in the Bourgeois Age / Alfred Ebenbauer -- From sword to dress: the ideal knight in late medieval French romance / Michelle Szkilnik -- Santō Kyōden's Chōshin suikoden: representations of violence and honor in Tokugawa fiction / Stephen J. Roddy -- Husbands and wives in Japanese feudalism / Reinhard Zöllner -- Fighting for land - fighting for power: war aim making in Renaissance Europe / Harald Kleinschmidt -- Li Shimin and the representation of military leadership in medieval China / David A. Graff -- Military evolution or revolution?: state formation and the early modern samurai / Shinko Taniguchi.

Literati identity and its fictional representations in late imperial China / Stephen J. Roddy.

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-304) and index.

Part I. The Image of the Literati in Qing Discourse. 1. Literati identity and the Qing epistemological crisis -- 2. Discourses of the literati and the literati in discourse -- 3. The intellectual milieus of three novelists -- Part II. The Deconstruction of Literati Identity in Rulin Waishi. 4. Scholars, poets, painters and essayists -- 5. The decline of literati mores -- 6. The use and abuse of ritual -- Part III. Fictional Reconstruction of Literati Identity. 7. Yesou Puyan: a Confucian-feminist utopia? -- 8. The philological musings of Jinghua Yuan

"By reading vernacular fiction, scholarly and exegetical texts, and aesthetic treatises as parallel if not wholly identical attempts to redefine literati identity, the book aims to advance our understanding of the intersections and overlaps between literary and discursive practices of late traditional China."--BOOK JACKET.

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