The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (Princeton

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The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (Princeton Legacy Library)

"In highly informed yet sympathetic and persuasive terms, Norma Field delineates the characters of a number of the most important women who figure in the Tale of Genji in order to show the way in which their lives mirror and ultimately explicate the vast structure of this most wonderful of Japanese novels. This is Genji as read and loved by a person of a truly contemporary sensibility." -J. Thomas Rimer, University of Maryland. Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A. D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophistication and insight, Western prose fiction was to wait centuries to rival her work. Norma Field explores the shifting configurations of the Tale, showing how the hero Genji is made and unmade by a series of heroines. Professor Field draws on the riches of both Japanese and Western Scholarship, as well as on her own sensitive reading of the Tale. Included are discussions of the social, psychological, and political dimensions of the aesthetics of this novel, with emphasis on the crucial relationship of erotic and political concerns to prose fictions. Norma Field is Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.

Country	USA
Author	Norma Field
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780691014364
Edition	Edition Not Stated
IsAdultProduct	0
ISBN	0691014361
Label	Princeton University Press
Manufacturer	Princeton University Press
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	394
PublicationDate	1987-04-01
Publisher	Princeton University Press
Studio	Princeton University Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (Princeton Legacy Library)