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Author:

Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz, 1926-2010.

Title:

Images of Japanese women : a Westerner's view / by Bettina L. Knapp.

Publisher:

Whitston Pub. Co.,

Copyright Date:

1992

Description:

xiii, 263 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Women--Japan--History.
Japanese literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Women and literature--Japan.
Japan--Social life and customs.
Japanese literature--Women authors.
Manners and customs.
Women.
Women and literature.
Japan.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-255) and index.

Contents:

Murasaki Shikibu's The tale of Genji : search for the mother -- The Heian art diary : hidden behind the screens -- Women's mysteries : poetry and Noh in feudal Japan -- The arts and "The floating world" in the Edo period : 1603-1867 -- Ladies make waves in the Meiji period : 1868-1912 -- Modernism : the circle completed.

ISBN:

9780878754274
087875427X

OCLC:

(OCoLC)26731874

LCCN:

91067976

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)