Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors

ISBN-13: 9780824875091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 392 str.

Doris G. Bargen

Opis

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 complex polygynous kinship system as the domain within which courtship occurs.