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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press,
2002.
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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.