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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Li, Wai-yee (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1993]
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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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.