Rereading the Stone

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher(s): Princeton Univ Pr
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Summary

"A study of the very highest quality and value. Anthony Yu breaks new ground on a number of topics that are central to the interpretation of the novel and, in numerous instances, to Chinese literature as a whole. "Rereading the Stone" will establish itself as the single most important work on the novel's interpretation."--Patrick Hanan, Harvard University ""Rereading the Stone" is a wonderfully perceptive and capacious treatment of two important issues in Hongloumeng: desire and fictionality.... Anthony Yu's book is a "tour de force,""--Wai-Yee Li, Princeton University

Author Biography

Anthony C. 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

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Preface xi
Reading
3(50)
Reading the First Readings
3(17)
Reading as History
20(6)
Reading History, Reading Fiction
26(27)
Desire
53(57)
The Definition of ``Qing''
56(10)
The Dialectics of Nature and Disposition
66(8)
Ritual and the Rule of Desire
74(8)
Pathocentrism and the Legitimation of Desire
82(28)
Stone
110(62)
The Stone of Fiction
110(11)
The Gate of Emptiness
121(16)
The Dream and the Mirror
137(14)
The Fiction of Stone
151(21)
Literature
172(47)
Marriage, Learning, Examination
172(14)
Censorship and the Critics
186(8)
The Fiction of Desire
194(16)
The Fate of Reading
210(9)
Tragedy
219(37)
Choosing the Protagonist
219(7)
The Orphaned Contender
226(8)
The Thwarted Communion
234(12)
Between Delusion and Hope
246(10)
Conclusion 256(13)
Glossary 269(8)
Bibliography 277(36)
Index 313

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