التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
A gothic Taoism and its dual facets: possible worlds in The Haunted Monastery. |
| المؤلفون: |
Xie, Pan |
| المصدر: |
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications; 7/18/2024, p1-10, 10p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
TAOISM, MYSTERY fiction, MONASTERIES, SCHOLARLY method |
| مستخلص: |
Recent scholarship has argued for a Western basis for the Judge Dee Mysteries, a detective fiction series by Sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910–1967) set in Tang China. But these studies primarily focus on how Chinese elements are recreated to cater to Anglophone readers' tastes, neglecting to discuss their actual Western origins in any detail. This paper will make the attempt by focusing on one of the novels, The Haunted Monastery, to investigate how Gothic Taoism is projected through the internal organization of the semantic universe (characters, settings, and conflicts) in the multiple worlds of this detective fiction. It observes how van Gulik recreates anti-religious conventions in the traditional Western Gothic novel and in Chinese courtroom fiction. This artistic innovation highlights the dual facets of Taoism in the story, as it navigates between the realms of crime and faith. On the one hand, it faces the purely divine world, while on the other, it faces the secular world dominated by limitless desire. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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