Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber.
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (817 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691090130 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 344 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Excellent Don Quickoats I recently purchased this book because I've read it in the past and will need to make reference to it (though I have pretensions of scholarship, this is not a scholarly review!). I enjoy reading everything written by Anthony Yu. In _Re-Reading_ I appreciate his detailed analysis and his direct comment on religious elements in Honglou Meng (Dream of the red chamber). Anthony Yu is willing to take on the broad community of scholars to make his particular points of em
"Yu's book is one of the most important studies on Hongloumeng to appear in recent decades. It is a work of erudition and intellectual discernment, and it will undoubtedly become a classic in Honglou meng study. It is full of insights and refreshing readings. One of its many important contributions is its success in drawing our attention to the centrality of desire in premodern Chinese culture and its intimate relationship with Chinese literature."--Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Through a maze of literary devices, the novel challenges the authority of history as well as referential biases in reading. 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. In this path-breaking study, Anthony Yu goes beyond the customary view of Hongloume
Yu is the Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where he is also Professor 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