Enchantment and Disenchantment : : Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature / / Wai-yee Li.
In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impul...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- CHAPTER ONE. The Genealogy of Disenchantment
- CHAPTER TWO. The Late-Mmg Moment
- CHAPTER THREE. Desire and Order in Liao-chai chih-i
- CHAPTER FOUR. Beginnings: Enchantment and Irony m Hung-Iou meng
- CHAPTER FIVE. Self-Reflexivity and the Lyrical Ideal in Hung-Iou meng
- CHAPTER SIX. Disenchantment and Order in Hung-Iou meng
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Epilogue: The Compass of Irony
- Works Cited
- Index