Mapping courtship and kinship in classical Japan : the Tale of Genji and its predecessors /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2015.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvvn0rx |
Table of Contents:
- Physical space: the sites of courtship
- Conceptual space: the Heian marital system
- Narrating courtship through a gap
- Courtship in mid-Heian writings
- Genji: courtship as play and performance
- Murasaki: kaimami through a woman's eyes
- Exiting the maze.