Sarashina Diary - A Woman''s Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader''s Edition)

Informationen zum Autor Sonja Arntzen is professor emerita of literature at the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta. Her books include The Kagero Diary: A Woman’s Autobiographical Text from Tenth-Century Japan (1997). Ito Moriyuki is professor of Japanese literature at Gakushuin Women’s College in Tokyo. His book Sarashina nikki kenkyu (Research on the Sarashina Diary, 1995) is recognized as the definitive work on the diary. Klappentext A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl began a diary; from it, she skillfully created an autobiography later in life. This reader¿s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki It¿¿s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use, offering insight into the author¿s world and the diary's textual history. Zusammenfassung A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and writer more than as a wife and mother; enthralled by fiction, she bore witness to the dangers of romantic fantasy as well as the enduring consolation of self-expression. This reader’s edition streamlines Sonja Arntzen and Moriyuki Ito’s acclaimed translation of the Sarashina Diary for general readers and classroom use. This translation captures the lyrical richness of the original text while revealing its subtle structure and ironic meaning, highlighting the author’s deep concern for Buddhist belief and practice and the juxtaposition of poetic passages and narrative prose. The translators’ commentary offers insight into the author’s family and world, as well as the style, structure, and textual history of her work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Sarashina Diary Appendix 1. Family and Social Connections Appendix 2. Maps Appendix 3. List of Place Names Mentioned in the Sarashina Diary Notes Bibliography Index...

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• Authors: Sugawara, Sugawara No Takasue Sugawara No Takasue No Musume, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja (TRN Sugawara No Takasue No Musume/ Arntzen
• Assisted by: Sonja Arntzen (Translation), Arntzen Sonja (Translation), Moriyuki Itō (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780231186773
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18677-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Japan, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Diaries, letters & journals, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Japanese, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Diaries, letters and journals, History and Archaeology