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Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
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Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
Current price: $65.99
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Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly
Current price: $65.99
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Beyond Eroticism
translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from
Child's Folly
, a trilogy of popular songs (
Hanging Twigs
), folk songs (
Hill Songs
), and jokes (
Treasury of Laughs
) compiled by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), and giant in late Ming popular literature (1368-1644). Focusing on humor as the predominant characteristic of the "tactically forgotten" collections, the book offers a delightful study of the foibles, eccentricities, and anxieties of a broad cross section of late Ming society.
translates and analyzes over forty songs and ninety jokes from
Child's Folly
, a trilogy of popular songs (
Hanging Twigs
), folk songs (
Hill Songs
), and jokes (
Treasury of Laughs
) compiled by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), and giant in late Ming popular literature (1368-1644). Focusing on humor as the predominant characteristic of the "tactically forgotten" collections, the book offers a delightful study of the foibles, eccentricities, and anxieties of a broad cross section of late Ming society.
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