Murasaki Shikibu's The tale of Genji : philosophical perspectives
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Murasaki Shikibu's The tale of Genji : philosophical perspectives
（Oxford studies in philosophy and literature / Richard Eldridge）
Oxford University Press, c2019
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Bibliography: p. 291
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内容説明・目次
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: cloth ISBN 9780190654979
内容説明
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of
philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis.
The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological
tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating
individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780190654986
内容説明
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical significance has been thoroughly acknowledged. As a work focused on the complexities of Japanese court life in the Heian period, however, the The Tale of Genji has never before been the subject of
philosophical investigation. The essays in this volume address this oversight, arguing that the work contains much that lends itself to philosophical analysis.
The authors of this volume demonstrate that The Tale of Genji confronts universal themes such as the nature and exercise of political power, freedom, individual autonomy and agency, renunciation, gender, and self-expression; it raises deep concerns about aesthetics and the role of art, causality, the relation of man to nature, memory, and death itself. Although Murasaki Shikibu may not express these themes in the text as explicitly philosophical problems, the complex psychological
tensions she describes and her observations about human conduct reveal an underlying framework of philosophical assumptions about the world of the novel that have implications for how we understand these concerns beyond the world of Genji. Each essay in this collection reveals a part of this framework, situating
individual themes within larger philosophical and historical contexts. In doing so, the essays both challenge prevailing views of the novel and each other, offering a range of philosophical interpretations of the text and emphasizing the The Tale of Genji's place as a masterful work of literature with broad philosophical significance.
目次
Editor's Note
Series Editor's Introduction
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Structure of Genji's Career: Myth, Politics and Pride, Royall Tyler
Chapter 2: The Epistemology of Space in The Tale of Genji, Wiebke Denecke
Chapter 3: Ritual, Moral Personhood, and Spirit Possession in The Tale of Genji,
James McMullen
Chapter 4: Flares in the Garden, Darkness in the Heart: Exteriority, Interiority and the Role
of Poems in The Tale of Genji, Edward Kamens
Chapter 5: Calligraphy, Aesthetics, and Character in The Tale of Genji, Tomoko Sakomura
Chapter 6: Genji's Gardens: Negotiating Nature at the Heian Court, Ivo Smits
Chapter 7: Rethinking Gender in The Tale of Genji, Rajyashree Pandey
Chapter 8: Murasaki's "Mind Ground:" A Buddhist Theory of the Novel, Melissa
McCormick
Further Reading
Index
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