Reading the Tale of Genji : its picture-scrolls, texts and romance
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Reading the Tale of Genji : its picture-scrolls, texts and romance
Global Oriental, 2009
- : hardback
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  Iwate
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  Gunma
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-179) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This new volume in Genji studies comprises a collection of six individual essays by leading international scholars addressing the Tale of Genji Scrolls and the Tale of Genji texts in the context of new critical theory relating to cultural studies, narrative painting, narratology, comparative literature and a global view of medieval romance. Uniquely, it also links new critical theory with multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary interests. Increasingly, scholarly research views 'reading' The Tale of Genji Scrolls as an inseparable part of 'reading' the Tale of Genji itself. Hence this book, which is subdivided into three sections: Reading the Genji Scrolls; Reading the Genji Texts; Reading the Genji Romance. The contributors are Yukio Lippit (Harvard), Sano Midori (Gakushuin), Richard Okada (Princeton), Murakami Fuminobu (Hong Kong), Jeremy Tambling (Manchester) and Richard Stanley-Baker (formerly Hong Kong)
Table of Contents
- Preface
- A Note to the Reader
- Introduction
- PART I: Reading the Genji Scrolls
- 1 Scripting the Moribund: The Genji Scrolls' Aesthetics of Decomposition
- 2 The Narration of Tales, The Narration of Paintings
- PART II: Reading the Genji Texts
- 3 Displacements of Conquest, or Exile: The Tale of Genji, and Post-Cold War Learning
- 4 Person, Honorifics and Tense in the Tale of Genji
- PART III: Reading the Genji Romance
- 5 'Kiritsubo': Genji, Spacing and Naming
- 6 Genji and the Gardens of Medieval Romance
- Appendix: A Chapter List of The Tale of Genji, with Lists of Attributed Teams
- Bibliography of Japanese Sources
- Index
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