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Revenge And Its Implications: Literati Discourse Of Justice In Late Qing And Modern Chinese Fiction, Yoojin Soh
Revenge And Its Implications: Literati Discourse Of Justice In Late Qing And Modern Chinese Fiction, Yoojin Soh
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My dissertation explores literati criticism of injustice embedded in revenge narratives. Ranging from the late Qing to modern China, this research project elaborates on the existing scholarship regarding historical and cultural meanings of revenge to demonstrate the use of earlier textual sources by intellectual writers to embody their ideas and strategies. The literati community inherited a keen sense of injustice in society from previous writing practice and passed it down to later generations. Revenge narratives were able to reinforce this intellectual tradition because the authors of social criticism could use fiction to express their anger and frustration over injustices suffered …
Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance And Violent Relations In Early Modern Revenge Tragedies, Megan Elizabeth Allen
Conditional Love: Imitation, Inheritance And Violent Relations In Early Modern Revenge Tragedies, Megan Elizabeth Allen
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In "Conditional Love," I reread narratives that seem to confirm normative kinship structures as excessive iterations of their very normativity. Examining revenge tragedies by Shakespeare, Marston, Middleton, Tourneur and Kyd, I argue that the metaphors each playwright uses to portray familial emotions reveal the ideologies underpinning both excessive and normative versions of familial relationships. For example, the pietas that causes Titus to refurbish his elaborate family tomb also leads him to murder one of his sons. It is because Piero, the villainous father in Marston's Antonio's Revenge, imagines his daughter as a physical part of him "as near my heart …