Archetype and allegory in the dream of the red chamber /
Surprisingly little has been written in Western languages about the eighteenth- century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, perhaps the supreme masterpiece of its entire tradition. In this study, Andrew H. Plaks has used the conceptual tools of comparative literature to focus on the novel's...
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| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1976.
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| سلاسل: | Princeton legacy library.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=946947 |
جدول المحتويات:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- I. Archetype and Mythology in Chinese Literature
- II. The Marriage of Nii-kua and Fu-hsi
- III. Complementary Bipolarity and Multiple Periodicity
- IV. The Archetypal Structure of Dream of the Red Chamber
- V. Allegory in Chinese and Western Literature
- VI. Western Allegorical Gardens
- VII. The Chinese Literary Garden
- VIII. A Garden of Total Vision: The Allegory of the Ta-kuan Yiian
- IX. Endings and Conclusions
- Source Notes
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index