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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458154703321

Autore

Bowring Richard John <1947->

Titolo

Murasaki Shikibu : the Tale of Genji / / Richard Bowring [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-14866-9

1-283-32912-3

0-511-16539-0

9786613329127

0-511-81171-3

0-511-16602-8

0-511-16407-6

0-511-56666-2

0-511-16487-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 106 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Landmarks of world literature

Disciplina

895.631

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

The cultural background -- The tale of Genji -- Language and style -- Impact, influence, and reception.

Sommario/riassunto

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 this book will therefore be used not only as an introduction, but also as a guide through the difficult and convoluted plot.