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Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber - Couverture rigide

Yu, Anthony C.

 
9780691015613: Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0691015619 ISBN 13 : 9780691015613
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1997

Synopsis

The 18th-century "Hongloumeng", known in English as "Dream of the Red Chamber" or "The Story of the Stone" is considered to be one of the greatest of Chinese novels, blending realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. This study examines the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. This text argues that at the heart of the novel is the narration of desire. Desire appears in this tale as the defining trait and problem of human beings and, at the same time, shapes the novel's literary invention and effect. Through close readings of selected episodes, the text analyzes principal motifs of the narrative, such as dream, mirror, literature, religious enlightenment, and rhetorical reflexivity in relation to fictive representation. It contextualizes its discussion with a comprehensive genealogy of "quing" - desire, disposition, sentiment, feeling - a concept of fundamental importance in historical Chinese culture, and shows how the text exploits its multiple meanings.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anthony C. Yu is the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he teaches in the Divinity School, in the departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, English, and Comparative Literature, and serves on the Committee on Social Thought. He is best known for his complete, annotated translation of The Journey to the West.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691015619
ISBN 13 
9780691015613
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
344
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Princeton University Press
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