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The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan /
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Japonés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Translations from the Asian classics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text seem curiously modern. She married late and identified more as a writer than as a wife and mother. Enthralled by romantic fiction, she wrote extensively about the disillusioning blows that reality can deal to fantasy. The Sarashina Diary is a portrait of the writer as reader and a tribute to the ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231537452 023153745X |