Mapping Courtship and Kinship in Classical Japan: The Tale of Genji and Its Predecessors 9780824857332
Literary critiques of Murasaki Shikibu's eleventh-century The Tale of Genji have often focused on the amorous adven
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Table of contents :
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Mapping Courtship and Kinship
Chapter 1. Physical Space: The Sites of Courtship
Chapter 2. Conceptual Space: The Heian Marital System
Part II. The Gap in the Fence: Courtship before The Tale of Genji
Chapter 3. Narrating Courtship through a Gap
Chapter 4. Courtship in Mid-Heian Writings
Part III. The Genealogical Maze: Courtship in The Tale of Genji
Chapter 5. Entering the Maze
Chapter 6. Genji: Courtship as Play and Performance
Chapter 7. Murasaki: Kaimami through a Woman’s Eyes
Chapter 8. Exiting the Maze
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary-Index
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Mapping Courtship and Kinship
Chapter 1. Physical Space: The Sites of Courtship
Chapter 2. Conceptual Space: The Heian Marital System
Part II. The Gap in the Fence: Courtship before The Tale of Genji
Chapter 3. Narrating Courtship through a Gap
Chapter 4. Courtship in Mid-Heian Writings
Part III. The Genealogical Maze: Courtship in The Tale of Genji
Chapter 5. Entering the Maze
Chapter 6. Genji: Courtship as Play and Performance
Chapter 7. Murasaki: Kaimami through a Woman’s Eyes
Chapter 8. Exiting the Maze
Conclusion
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary-Index
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