TY - BOOK ID - 78122426 TI - Between history and philosophy AU - Els, Paul van AU - Queen, Sarah A PY - 2017 SN - 9781438466118 9781438466132 1438466137 PB - Albany DB - UniCat KW - Anecdotes KW - Chinese literature KW - S16/0490 KW - Ana KW - Facetiae KW - Humor KW - Biography KW - Wit and humor KW - History and criticism. KW - Philosophy. KW - China: Literature and theatrical art--Wit and humour, proverbs, anecdotes, cartoons KW - China KW - Intellectual life KW - History and criticism KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78122426 AB - Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of anecdotal narratives in early China. Edited by Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, this volume advances the thesis that anecdotes—brief, freestanding accounts of single events involving historical figures, and occasionally also unnamed persons, animals, objects, or abstractions—served as an essential tool of persuasion and meaning-making within larger texts. Contributors to the volume analyze the use of anecdotes from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty, including their relations to other types of narrative, their circulation and reception, and their central position as a mode of argumentation in a variety of historical and philosophical literary genres. ER -