The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21 by Field, Norma

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781929280056)

Vendor: Norma Field
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Format: Paperback
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The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21 by Field, Norma

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21

$18.95
The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21 by Field, Norma

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji: Volume 21

$18.95
Format: Paperback
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A Japanese literary classic and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written C.E. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from an aristocratic family. Norma Field, drawing on her own sensitive reading of Genji and on Japanese and Western scholarship, discusses the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of the work, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fiction. The shifting configurations of the tale are exposed, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines.

Author: Norma Field
ISBN-10: 192928005X
ISBN-13: 9781929280056
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2001
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.90d
By Norma Field
By Norma Field
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Norma Field is William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Her recent publications include From My Grand

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