Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone

Dore J. Levy

1. Ideal and Actual, Real and Not-real

2. "Family Togetherness": Patterns of Authority and the Subversion of Family Structure

3. Preexisting Conditions: Retributory Illness and the Limits of Medicine

4. A World Apart: Poetry and Society in the Garden of Total Vision

5. The Chiming of the Void: Poetry as a Vehicle to Enlightenment

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature

About the Author

Dore J. Levy is associate professor of comparative literature and East Asian Studies and chair of East Asian Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She is the author of Chinese Narrative Poetry: The Late Han Through T’ang Dynasties.

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