Unbinding The Pillow Book : : The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic / / Gergana Ivanova.

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized within Japanese literature for reasons including the gender of its author, the work’s complex textual h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 28 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER ONE: What Is The Pillow Book?
  • CHAPTER TWO: (Re)constructing the Text and Early Modern Scholarship
  • CHAPTER THREE: From a Guide to Court Life to a Guide to the Pleasure Quarters
  • CHAPTER FOUR: The Pillow Book for Early Modern Female Readers
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Shaping the Woman Writer
  • CHAPTER SIX: New Markets for Japanese Classics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index