The splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji

Norma Field

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Language: English

Published by Princeton University Press, 1992

0691066914 / 9780691066912

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occasional notes in pencil. xviii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Summary:"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 her work. Norma Field explores the shifting configurations of the Tale, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines. Professor Field draws on the riches of both Japanese and Western Scholarship, as well as on her own sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fictions."--Publisher's description.

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Title
The splendor of longing in the Tale of Genji
Author
Norma Field
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication year
1992
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Hardcover
Language
English
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0691066914
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