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Appraising Genji : literary criticism and cultural anxiety in the age of the last samurai /
"Considered by many to be the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is a masterpiece of narrative fiction rich in plot, character development, and compositional detail. The tale, written by a woman in service to Japan's imperial court in the early eleventh century...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Albany, NY :
State University of New York Press,
©2006.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Heian fantasies : nationalism and nostalgia in the reading of Genji
- Ch. 2. Hagiwara Hiromichi : masterless samurai and iconoclastic scholar
- Ch. 3. From moral contention to literary persuasion
- Ch. 4. Exposing the secrets of the author's brush
- Ch. 5. Ambiguity and the responsive reader
- Ch. 6. Translating Genji into the modern idiom
- App. I. Character glossary of premodern names, titles, and terms in Chinese and Japanese
- App. II. List of major commentaries on Genji.