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Bezig met laden... Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber.door Anthony C. Yu
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. One of the best works of "Redology" out there. Comprehensive yet focused, with a particular interest in the relationships between qing (情, roughly "emotion"), xing (性, "nature"), and yu (欲, desire). Overarching message is that we have to pay attention to the ways in which The Dream of the Red Chamber draws attention to its own fictionality; rather than looking for real life referents for every character, place, and event, Cao Xueqin would have wanted us to approach the novel as something constructed. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Through close readings of selected episodes, Yu analyzes principal motifs of the narrative, such as dream, mirror, literature, religious enlightenment, and rhetorical reflexivity in relation to fictive representation. He contextualizes his discussions with a comprehensive genealogy of qing--desire, disposition, sentiment, feeling--a concept of fundamental importance in historical Chinese culture, and shows how the text ingeniously exploits its multiple meanings. Spanning a wide range of comparative literary sources, Yu creates a new conceptual framework in which to reevaluate this masterpiece. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)895.1348Literature Literature of other languages Asian (east and south east) languages Chinese Chinese fiction Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties 960–1912 Qing dynasty 1644–1912LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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