Author: Murasaki ShikibuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The Tale of Genji: A wreath of cloud
Author: Murasaki ShikibuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
A Wreath of Cloud
Author: 紫式部A Wreath of Cloud, Being the Third Part of 'The Tale of Genji'
Author: Murasaki Shikibu源氏物語
Author: 紫式部Publisher:
ISBN: 9784805309216
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Envisioning The Tale of Genji
Author: Haruo ShiranePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231513461
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei periods, revealing its profound influence on a variety of genres and fields, including modern nation building. They also consider parody, pastiche, and re-creation of the text in various popular and mass media. Since the Genji was written by a woman for female readers, contributors also take up the issue of gender and cultural authority, looking at the novel's function as a symbol of Heian court culture and as an important tool in women's education. Throughout the volume, scholars discuss achievements in visualization, from screen painting and woodblock prints to manga and anime. Taking up such recurrent themes as cultural nostalgia, eroticism, and gender, this book is the most comprehensive history of the reception of The Tale of Genji to date, both in the country of its origin and throughout the world.
The Tale of Genji
Author: Michael EmmerichPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231162723
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history of The Tale of Genji. Exploring iterations of the work from the 1830s to the 1950s, he demonstrates how translations and the global circulation of discourse they inspired turned The Tale of Genji into a widely read classic, reframing our understanding of its significance and influence and of the processes that have canonized the text. Emmerich begins with an analysis of the lavishly produced best seller Nise Murasaki inaka Genji (A Fraudulent Murasaki's Bumpkin Genji, 1829-1842), an adaptation of Genji written and designed by Ryutei Tanehiko, with pictures by the great print artist Utagawa Kunisada. He argues that this work introduced Genji to a popular Japanese audience and created a new mode of reading. He then considers movable-type editions of Inaka Genji from 1888 to 1928, connecting trends in print technology and publishing to larger developments in national literature and showing how the one-time best seller became obsolete. The study subsequently traces Genji's reemergence as a classic on a global scale, following its acceptance into the canon of world literature before the text gained popularity in Japan. It concludes with Genji's becoming a "national classic" during World War II and reviews an important postwar challenge to reading the work after it attained this status. Through his sustained critique, Emmerich upends scholarship on Japan's preeminent classic while remaking theories of world literature, continuity, and community.
The Tale of Genji: The sacred tree
Author: Murasaki ShikibuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Tale of Genji Scroll
Author: Publisher: Kodansha America
ISBN: 9780870111310
Category : Genji monogatari emaki
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The tale of Genji scroll is a free visual recreation in which a number of isolated scenes from Murasaki's novel are represented.
The Moon in the Water
Author: Gwenn Boardman PetersenPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 0824842847
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
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The Tale of Genji
Author: Murasaki ShikibuPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101097396
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
An abridged edition of the world’s first novel, in a translation that is “likely to be the definitive edition . . . for many years to come” (The Wall Street Journal) A Penguin Classic Written in the eleventh century, this exquisite portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world’s first novel—and is certainly one of its finest. Genji, the Shining Prince, is the son of an emperor. He is a passionate character whose tempestuous nature, family circumstances, love affairs, alliances, and shifting political fortunes form the core of this magnificent epic. Royall Tyler’s superior translation is detailed, poetic, and superbly true to the Japanese original while allowing the modern reader to appreciate it as a contemporary treasure. In this deftly abridged edition, Tyler focuses on the early chapters, which vividly evoke Genji as a young man and leave him at his first moment of triumph. This edition also includes detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies.