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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2013]
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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.