Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan : : The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors / / Doris G. Bargen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Bargen, Doris G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.) :; 11 color, 1 b&w illustration, 8 charts, 5 maps

Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adventures of its eponymous hero. In this paradigm-shifting analysis of the Genji and other mid-Heian literature, Doris G. Bargen emphasizes the thematic importance of Japan's comp...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. Mapping Courtship and Kinship
• Chapter 1. Physical Space: The Sites of Courtship
• Chapter 2. Conceptual Space: The Heian Marital System
• Part II. The Gap in the Fence: Courtship before The Tale of Genji
• Chapter 3. Narrating Courtship through a Gap
• Chapter 4. Courtship in Mid-Heian Writings
• Part III. The Genealogical Maze: Courtship in The Tale of Genji
• Chapter 5. Entering the Maze
• Chapter 6. Genji: Courtship as Play and Performance
• Chapter 7. Murasaki: Kaimami through a Woman's Eyes
• Chapter 8. Exiting the Maze
• Conclusion
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Glossary-Index