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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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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Klein, Susan Blakeley (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2002.
Collection:Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 55.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.