Unreal Houses : Character, Gender, and Genealogy in the Tale of Genji /
"Argues that, in both form and content, the Tale of Genji re-envisions the elite practice of polygynous marriage and the construction of aristocratic mansions as expressions of familial power. Radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-encompassing both fictionalized im...
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Asia Center,
2020.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | "Argues that, in both form and content, the Tale of Genji re-envisions the elite practice of polygynous marriage and the construction of aristocratic mansions as expressions of familial power. Radically rethinks the Genji by focusing on the figure of the house-encompassing both fictionalized images of mansions and their inhabitants"-- |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (360 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781684176120 |