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Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Wai-Yee Li
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Description for Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 308 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, 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 impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yu that the purpose of his dream visit is "disenchantment through enchantment," or "enlightenment through love." Examining a range of genres from different periods, Wai-yee Li reveals the persistence of the dialectic embodied by the goddess: while illusion originates in love and desire, it is only through love ... Read more
In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, 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 impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yu that the purpose of his dream visit is "disenchantment through enchantment," or "enlightenment through love." Examining a range of genres from different periods, Wai-yee Li reveals the persistence of the dialectic embodied by the goddess: while illusion originates in love and desire, it is only through love ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691603605
SKU
V9780691603605
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Reviews for Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
"[Li] undertakes to examine the dialectical interplay of enchantment and disenchantment engendered by the ambiguous divine woman as ahe appears in a variety of genres in different periods of Chinese literature...sparkling with rich suggestions and provacative insights, Li's book will undoubtledly falicitate the study of the role and problematic reprisentation of women in literature"
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