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Flowering Tales : Women Exorcising History in Heian Japan

"Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough, but for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), the health of its eleventh-century community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale that c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Watanabe, Takeshi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Place of publication not identified] : Brill, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Genealogy of Eiga monogatari
  • 2. The Buried Mothers of the Middle Regent's House
  • 3. The Other Empress: Seishi and the Figural Genealogy
  • 4. Fathers and Daughters as Spirit Possessions
  • 5. The Sequel: Matching Change with Continuity
  • Epilogue: The Sacred Mirror
  • Glossary of Personages and Their Genealogies by Chapter.