The Sarashina diary : a woman's life in eleventh-century Japan /

A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her family. Some aspects of the author's life and text...

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מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, 1008- (Author)
מחברים אחרים: Arntzen, Sonja, 1945- (Translator), Itō, Moriyuki, 1954- (Translator)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יפנית
יצא לאור: New York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
סדרה:Translations from the Asian classics.
גישה מקוונת:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=813937
תוכן הענינים:
  • Text and author
  • The relationship of theme and structure
  • Dreams and religious consciousness
  • A child's viewpoint and layers of narration
  • Text and intertext: the Sarashina diary and the Tale of Genji
  • A life composed in counterpoint.