The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21 (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies) - Softcover

Norma Field

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192928005X ISBN 13: 9781929280056

Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001

Synopsis

A Japanese literary classic and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written C.E. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from an aristocratic family. Norma Field, drawing on her own sensitive reading of Genji and on Japanese and Western scholarship, discusses the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of the work, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fiction. The shifting configurations of the tale are exposed, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines.

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About the Author

Norma Field is William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Her recent publications include From My Grand

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192928005X
• ISBN 13: 9781929280056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392