Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber
by:
Anthony C. Yu (author)
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...
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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
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780691090139 (0691090130)
Publish date: August 5th 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 340
Edition language: English