The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji / / Norma Field.
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 sophisticaion and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival her wo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Principal Characters
- Introduction
- Chapter I. Three Heroines and the Making of the Hero
- Chapter 2. A Minor Heroine and the Unmaking of the Hero
- Chapter 3. A Substitute for All Seasons
- Chapter 4. Women Beyond the Capital
- Postscript
- Appendix. Chapter Titles in the Tale of Genji
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index