Abstract
In ancient China, storytelling (xiao shuo, literally, trivial telling) was considered as trivial in terms of the scope of the story, and in the pre-Qin period a type of "telling-style essay" was formed on the basis of telling. With "telling" as a link, the telling-style essay was related to "storytelling." There were different types of telling-style essay, each type having different stylistic features and functions. Among these types, the one that emphasized the exposition through imagistic narrative became the transition from "telling" to "storytelling," and this type of telling-style essay exhibited some stylistic connotations and features that profoundly influenced the concept, stylistic features, raw material development and compiling method of the later genre of story.
First Page
182
Last Page
191
Recommended Citation
Zhou, Jinfeng. 2015. "Telling, Telling Style Essay and Storytelling." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 35, (4): pp.182-191. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol35/iss4/18
