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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[1993]
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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.