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Author:

Bargen, Doris G., author.

Title:

Mapping courtship and kinship in classical Japan : the Tale of Genji and its predecessors / Doris G. Bargen.

Publisher:

University of Hawaiʻi Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xix, 372 pages, 11 color plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Japanese literature--Heian period, 794-1185--History and criticism.
Courtship in literature.
Kinship in literature.
Murasaki Shikibu,--978?---Genji monogatari.
Genji monogatari (Murasaki Shikibu)
Courtship in literature.
Japanese literature--Heian period.
Kinship in literature.
794 - 1185
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-346) and index.

Contents:

Physical space: the sites of courtship -- Conceptual space: the Heian marital system -- Narrating courtship through a gap -- Courtship in mid-Heian writings -- Entering the maze -- Genji: courtship as play and performance -- Murasaki: kaimami through a woman's eyes -- Exiting the maze.

ISBN:

0824851544
9780824851545

OCLC:

(OCoLC)904756066

LCCN:

2015009226

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)