Figures of Resistance - Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

"Figures of Resistance" is not simply the best English-language study of Heian prose texts now available, but also one of the two or three most important studies of Japanese literature ever written. It will become not so much the 'standard' . . . as the critical point of departure in the field of Japanese narrative studies for years to come." --Edward Fowler, University of California, Irvine

Info autore

H. Richard Okada

Riassunto

Offers fresh readings of three tales: "The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter", "The Tale of Ise", and "The Tale of Genji". The author contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist discourse of Western civilization.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: OKADA, H. Richard Okada, Richard H Okada, Richard H. Okada
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.10.1991
• EAN: 9780822311928
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-1192-8
• Pagine: 400
• Dimensioni: 155 mm x 232 mm x 29 mm
• Peso: 653 g
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata