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Mapping courtship and kinship in classical Japan : the Tale of Genji and its predecessors /

Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's comp...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Bargen, Doris G. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2015.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Physical space: the sites of courtship
  • Conceptual space: the Heian marital system
  • Narrating courtship through a gap
  • Courtship in mid-Heian writings
  • Genji: courtship as play and performance
  • Murasaki: kaimami through a woman's eyes
  • Exiting the maze.