Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji

Name: Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji
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ISBN: 9780521539753

ISBN-10: 0521539757

ISBN-13: 9780521539753

Edition: 2nd 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Richard Bowring

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Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. It is also one of the earliest major works to be written by a woman. This introduction to the Genji sketches the cultural background, offers detailed analysis of the text, discusses matters of language and style and ends by tracing the history of its reception through nine centuries of cultural change. This book will be useful for survey courses in Japanese and World Literature. Because The Tale of Genji is so long, it is often not possible for students to read it in its entirety and…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/10/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 122
Size: 4.88" wide x 7.91" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English



Preface


Genji chapter titles


Genealogical chart



The Cultural Background



Politics



Murasaki Shikibu



Religion



Language



A grammar of sexual relations



History and fiction



The Tale of Genji



Sexual politics (chapters 1-12)



Penance and restitution (chapters 12-21)



A prospect of flowers (chapters 22-33)



Dangerous obsessions (chapters 34-41)



A passion for self-destruction (chapters 42-54)



Language and style



The narrator's presence



Kashiwagi's tortured mind



Equivocal narration



Poetry in prose



Translations



Impact, Influence and Reception



Early textual history



Murasaki in hell



Medieval commentaries



Tokugawa readings



Modern readings


Guide to further reading