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Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women : Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu /

This book explores the world of thirteenth-century Japan through the life of a prolific noblewoman known as Nun Abutsu (1225-1283). Abutsu crossed gender and genre barriers by writing the first career guide for Japanese noblewomen, the first female-authored poetry treatise, and the first poetic trav...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Laffin, Christina (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Nun Abutsu and women's writing in medieval Japan
  • A woman's guide to career success : Nun Abutsu and court life in The nursemaid's letter
  • Lover and nun : embodying the heroine in Fitful slumbers
  • Women and the way : Nun Abutsu as poet and Genji scholar
  • Politics and poetry : Diary of the sixteenth night moon as a literary appeal.