LEADER 03860nam 22005771 450 001 9910787505803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-53442-6 024 7 $a10.7312/emme16272 035 $a(CKB)2670000000429746 035 $a(EBL)1103417 035 $a(OCoLC)859614952 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001001373 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11614254 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001001373 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10978934 035 $a(PQKB)10209956 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1103417 035 $a(DE-B1597)458835 035 $a(OCoLC)979573846 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231534420 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1103417 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10775188 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL562680 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000429746 100 $a20130131d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe tale of Genji $etranslation, canonization, and world literature /$fMichael Emmerich 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (513 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-16273-1 311 $a0-231-16272-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note to the Reader -- $tIntroduction: Replacing the Text -- $tPart I. Ninety-Nine Years in the Life of an Image -- $tTouchstone 1. Reimagining the Canon -- $tChapter 1. A G?kan Is a G?kan Is a G?kan -- $tChapter 2. Reading Higashiyama -- $tChapter 3. Turning a New Page -- $tPart II. In Medias Res -- $tTouchstone 2. The Triangle -- $tChapter 4. The History of a Romance -- $tChapter 5. From the World to the Nation -- $tChapter 6. " Genji monogatari: Translation and Original" -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aMichael 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. 606 $aJapanese literature$yHeian period, 794-1185$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aJapanese literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a895.6314 700 $aEmmerich$b Michael$01151656 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787505803321 996 $aThe tale of Genji$93773043 997 $aUNINA