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The splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji /

"Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophistication and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Field, Norma, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Three heroines and the making of the hero : dichotomies and substitution: Fujitsubo ; Transgression, exile, and the development of fiction ; The Rokujō lady: pride and possession ; The elusive self in Heian Japan ; Meeting in exile ; At the capital: the Akashi lady as urban aristocrat
  • A minor heroine and the unmaking of the hero : Minor chapters and minor heroines ; The noble exile and the stepdaughter ; The eastern pavilion and the battle of the seasons ; The Rokujōin ; Fiction and courtship ; Varieties of carnation: The lady of Ōmi and Tamakazura ; Autumn in Rokujōin ; Tamakazura: the stolen prize
  • A substitute for all seasons : The naming of a heroine ; Childhood as a symbolic state ; Idealized banality and its rupture ; The growth of vision ; The staging of death ; The hero alone
  • Women beyond the capital : Uji before the Uji chapters ; Secrets, fragrances, and vocation: the men of Uji ; Sisterhood in Uji: Ōigimi, the firstborn ; Between authenticity and substitution: Nakanokimi ; Drifting beyond substitution: Ukifune
  • Postscript
  • Appendix: chapter titles in the tale of Genji.