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.</p>
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.</p>
具體描述
讀後感
What Anthony C. Yu’s Rereading the Stone affords is more than an innovative reading of HLM; it is also to my knowledge the most insightful reading of the readings of the Qing masterpiece up to this point. I take the title’s self-claimed “re-reading” as ...
評分What Anthony C. Yu’s Rereading the Stone affords is more than an innovative reading of HLM; it is also to my knowledge the most insightful reading of the readings of the Qing masterpiece up to this point. I take the title’s self-claimed “re-reading” as ...
評分What Anthony C. Yu’s Rereading the Stone affords is more than an innovative reading of HLM; it is also to my knowledge the most insightful reading of the readings of the Qing masterpiece up to this point. I take the title’s self-claimed “re-reading” as ...
評分Chapter three of Anthony Yu’s book Re-reading the Stone This chapter is divided into four sections. The first one is The Stone of Fiction, in which Anthony Yu argues that the narrative is a story about a piece of Stone being the protagonist; the Stone bei...
評分What Anthony C. Yu’s Rereading the Stone affords is more than an innovative reading of HLM; it is also to my knowledge the most insightful reading of the readings of the Qing masterpiece up to this point. I take the title’s self-claimed “re-reading” as ...
用戶評價
Overwhelming...
评分Required reading for Prof. Robert Hegel's seminar on Honglou meng this semester. Prof. Yu's Rereading of the story of the Stone ABSOLUTELY worth rereading!!
评分Overwhelming...
评分Overwhelming...
评分Overwhelming...
相關圖書
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息，本站不存儲任何數據與內容，任何內容與數據均與本站無關，如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈圖書下載中心 版权所有