Allegories of desire : esoteric literary commentaries of medieval Japan /

"This book examines the historical problem of allegory and why certain texts lent themselves to allegorical interpretation; the political, economic, and religious developments of the Kamakura period that encouraged the development of this method of interpretation; and the possible motives of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Klein, Susan Blakeley (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
Series:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 55.
Subjects:
Fujiwara, Sadaie, > 1162-1241.
Fujiwara, Sadaie > 1162-1241
Fujiwara, Sadaie.
1185-1600
Waka > History and criticism.
Japanese poetry > 1185-1600 > History and criticism.
Buddhism and literature.
Poésie japonaise > 1185-1600 > Histoire et critique.
Bouddhisme et littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Japanese.
Japanese poetry.
Waka.
Allegorie
Japanisch
Lyrik
Waka
Gedichten.
Japans.
Geschichte 1185-1600.
Japanisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Allegory, symbol, and allegoresis
  • Allegory and allegoresis in premodern Japanese literature
  • The commentary tradition
  • Textual triggers
  • Extratextual triggers
  • Fujiwara no Tameaki and the Kamakura commentaries
  • Basic religious concepts underlying Tameaki's commentaries
  • problems of authority
  • Tameaki-affiliated commentaries (Part I)
  • Tameaki-affiliated commentaries (Part II)
  • Reizei and Nijo commentaries after Tameaki.

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