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- catalog abstract "The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels - one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng as a vivid reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. At the heart of Hongloumeng, Yu argues, 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. According to Yu, this focalizing treatment of desire may well be Hongloumeng's most distinctive accomplishment.".
- catalog contributor b10423585.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "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. According to Yu, this focalizing treatment of desire may well be Hongloumeng's most distinctive accomplishment.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-311) and index.".
- catalog description "Reading the First Readings -- Reading as History -- Reading History, Reading Fiction -- Desire -- The Definition of "Qing" -- The Dialectics of Nature and Disposition -- Ritual and the Rule of Desire -- Pathocentrism and the Legitimation of Desire -- Stone -- The Stone of Fiction -- The Gate of Emptiness -- The Dream and the Mirror -- The Fiction of Stone -- Literature -- Marriage, Learning, Examination -- Censorship and the Critics -- The Fiction of Desire -- The Fate of Reading -- Tragedy -- Choosing the Protagonist -- The Orphaned Contender -- The Thwarted Communion -- Between Delusion and Hope.".
- catalog description "The eighteenth-century Hongloumeng, known in English as Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone, is generally considered to be the greatest of Chinese novels - one that masterfully blends realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurrences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloumeng as a vivid reflection of late imperial Chinese culture by examining the novel as a story about fictive representation. Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. At the heart of Hongloumeng, Yu argues, is the narration of desire.".
- catalog extent "xv, 321 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0691015619 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog language "engchi".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog subject "895/.1348 21".
- catalog subject "Cao, Xueqin, approximately 1717-1763. Hong lou meng.".
- catalog subject "Chinese fiction History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PL2727.S2 Y76 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading the First Readings -- Reading as History -- Reading History, Reading Fiction -- Desire -- The Definition of "Qing" -- The Dialectics of Nature and Disposition -- Ritual and the Rule of Desire -- Pathocentrism and the Legitimation of Desire -- Stone -- The Stone of Fiction -- The Gate of Emptiness -- The Dream and the Mirror -- The Fiction of Stone -- Literature -- Marriage, Learning, Examination -- Censorship and the Critics -- The Fiction of Desire -- The Fate of Reading -- Tragedy -- Choosing the Protagonist -- The Orphaned Contender -- The Thwarted Communion -- Between Delusion and Hope.".
- catalog title "Rereading the stone : desire and the making of fiction in Dream of the red chamber / Anthony C. Yu.".
- catalog type "text".