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The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji /
"Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophistication and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1987]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Three heroines and the making of the hero : dichotomies and substitution: Fujitsubo ; Transgression, exile, and the development of fiction ; The Rokujō lady: pride and possession ; The elusive self in Heian Japan ; Meeting in exile ; At the capital: the Akashi lady as urban aristocrat
- A minor heroine and the unmaking of the hero : Minor chapters and minor heroines ; The noble exile and the stepdaughter ; The eastern pavilion and the battle of the seasons ; The Rokujōin ; Fiction and courtship ; Varieties of carnation: The lady of Ōmi and Tamakazura ; Autumn in Rokujōin ; Tamakazura: the stolen prize
- A substitute for all seasons : The naming of a heroine ; Childhood as a symbolic state ; Idealized banality and its rupture ; The growth of vision ; The staging of death ; The hero alone
- Women beyond the capital : Uji before the Uji chapters ; Secrets, fragrances, and vocation: the men of Uji ; Sisterhood in Uji: Ōigimi, the firstborn ; Between authenticity and substitution: Nakanokimi ; Drifting beyond substitution: Ukifune
- Postscript
- Appendix: chapter titles in the tale of Genji.